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Getting started with the Challenge is simple. Visit the library’s website to register. From there, you can print a reading log or track your minutes online.
Once you hit 600 minutes, head to any of our in-person or curbside locations to receive a cool prize. Babies and toddlers get an egg shaker, kids get a kazoo (with a bonus prize for caregivers), while teens and adults get a phone charging cable that fits both Android and Apple phones.
Six hundred minutes is all you need to complete the challenge, but you don’t have to stop there. Continuing on to 1,200 and then 1,800 minutes nets free coupons for ice cream, coffee, and more at local businesses around Nashville.
And please: don’t feel like you have to log your minutes the second you stop reading or playing. You can tally them up at the end of the day, the week, the month, or however you choose. And don’t worry if you can’t register today — you can register any time between now and August 21, and log any minutes you’ve racked up since May 3.
“We recognize that it can be bothersome to log minutes as soon as you’re done reading, especially for parents and caregivers with little ones,” Welch said. “That’s why we don’t want this to be a formal, by-the-rules contest. We want everyone to approach it their way, at their pace, and have fun while they ‘Press Play.’ ”