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COLFAX – Readers are facing two challenges by the Whitman County Rural Library District.

Both the Genre Challenge and the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten use the library’s online reading to track books read. The app is called Beanstack, Interim Director Sheri Miller said.

“Beanstack’s website and app serve as an interactive home for reading challenges created by (Whitman County Library). Tring to serve patrons through COVID, (we) jumped on the online reading bandwagon last spring,” Miller said. “Even prior to COVID, many public libraries throughout the U.S. use an online servic...