1063rd Friday Blog Roundup

I’m not a big shopper this time of year — we don’t have gifts to buy — but I normally love to browse the book deals on either Black Friday or Cyber Monday. I almost always find something on my TBR. I keep a spreadsheet of every book purchase (of course, I do), and so many of them take place in late November or December.

But this year, there was nothing. I mean, there literally wasn’t a special one-day flash sale. There were just the sale books that had been the sale books all week, just like every other week. The e-book dealers (at least in the US) skipped the big sale weekend.

I mostly buy physical books rather than e-books, so maybe it’s just as well. But it was a bit of a bummer. Even when I don’t buy anything, I like the lists to see what books make it on.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

And now the blogs…

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But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Next 15,000 Days posted her Christmas wish, and it’s super simple to give it. You just have to send her an email. Tell her about yourself. Anything you want. Where you’re from, whether you read her blog, what you’re looking forward to this year. It’s the season of connection.

A day or two late reading this, but Middle Girl jumps back through the decades, starting with age 7 because she is currently 57. In little snippets, she talks about one thing she remembers from each decade. It’s a lovely exercise to look back on what was occupying your heart at various stage of life.

The roundup to the Roundup: Where did the book sales go? Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between November 28 – Dec 5) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.