We sent the guide out by email on May 16th at 9:00 am EDT (try searching for subject line “The 2024 Summer Reading Guide Is Here!).
Unfortunately, as magical as email is it isn’t completely reliable, but don’t worry! If you can’t find the email you can still get your Summer Reading guide—it is attached to the Unboxing event pages.

If you are also not receiving 30 minute reminder emails or our new Sunday Dispatch please email [email protected] and we’ll get you sorted.

We published a Patreon post on Thursday May 16th at 9:00 a.m. EDT with the guide. If you do not have email notifications on for Patreon or you simply can’t find that email, don’t worry! The Summer Reading Guide is attached to this post.

We sent the guide out by email on May 16th at 9:00 am EDT (try searching for subject line “The 2024 Summer Reading Guide Is Here!).

Unfortunately, as magical as email is it isn’t completely reliable, but don’t worry! If you can’t find the email you can still get your Summer Reading guide—it is attached to the Unboxing replay page in your MMD Shop Account.

If you are not receiving any emails from us please email [email protected] and we’ll get you sorted.

As of last year, the Summer Reading Guide is an exclusive perk for our Book Club and Patreon community members or those who have purchased the guide a la carte. For more information about this change see the blog post What you need to know about the Summer Reading Guide coming May 16th.

We know many of you like to print your copy of the Summer Reading Guide and mark it up. That’s why we authorize readers to print one copy of the guide for personal use only: we’ve included a permission to that effect on the copyright page of the guide. If you choose to have the guide professionally printed, be sure to show them that permission.

But: it pains us to say this but we do not recommend ordering a professionally printed copy this year. Prices at our local print shop have increased 250% in the last two years which makes the price ridiculously high; we’re embarrassed to tell you how much it cost to print our sample copy. And because the Guide is so large, the printed booklet does not lay as flat as we would like. If you really want a professionally printed guide ask a lot of questions about paper weight and binding and perhaps get yourself a couple of quotes. (We’ve also heard good things from you about the online service Blurb and their more reasonable prices, but we haven’t yet tried it ourselves.) 

Our team has also been told WILDLY differing file requirements for booklet printing (which is how we’ve always recommended you print the Guide), and we know you’ve been told contradictory things from your nationwide printers as well. Because of these differing requirements/preferences from the printers, we are not in a position to provide customer support for printing.

I personally like the results I got with home printing: we printed at home on letter paper and stapled it together. It’s easy to use, looks great, and was inexpensive to create. If you print at home, be sure to use a PDF viewer (like Acrobat Reader, as opposed to Preview) or some of the pictures may not print clearly. Please be aware that this is a full color design and will use a lot of ink. You can easily print the file labeled “2024 MMD Summer Reading Guide” on 8.5 x 11 paper. The font will be on the small side, but we thought it looked pretty darn good when we tested it! 

If you consider our warning and still choose to go the professional route, we’ve created a separate “print file” for you, which breaks the layout of the Guide into 52 single pages. This file is not a booklet layout; it can be stapled, three-hole punched, or spiral-bound. This file is accessible on the Book Club event page, the Patreon post, and in your MMD My Shop Account, depending on how you accessed the Guide. It is clearly labeled as the “print file.” 

We will provide a replay after the Unboxing event. That replay will be available beginning May 17. Accessing it will depend on how you got your Summer Reading Guide.

• Book Clubbers can find it on the events page.
• Patreon members: we will share the video replay in a dedicated patreon post. 
• A la carte purchasers can find it on the replay page in your shop account.

We have heard some people have had issues viewing the Guide in Safari when opening the link from our email. If you download the file to your device and open in a PDF reader or even in Safari it seems to appear correctly. You can also use the link here on the website and that seems to display correctly as well.

We are sorry to hear that it’s not rendering correctly in Safari, but this is not an issue with the actual PDF.

We’re here to help! We really want you to get your guide as soon as possible so you can enjoy it! For any sticky issues we haven’t addressed above, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Our team is small but mighty! We typically respond within one business day, and often much sooner.

It’s always helpful to have as much information as possible so we can look into it right away for you. Depending on the trouble you are having this may mean: your email address, whether you are a Book Club member, Patreon member or a la carte purchaser, what type of device you’re using and the browser, or anything else specific to your situation.

Anne hints at some content warnings in both the Guide and Unboxing event. She does however avoid spoilers which can make it hard to give detailed content warnings.

If you have a particular concern The StoryGraph is a good resource as is GoodReads (search the reviews for your particular concern). Anne has read every book in the Guide so you can also reach out to us at [email protected] to ask about a particular title and content you’re trying to avoid.