collectible card templates – Read First Chapter.com

These cards are 2.5" wide and 3.5" tall when folded. These are meant to be created by you of your favorites, and then filled in as you finish each book.

They are designed to print out on cardstock and should fit into the trading card sleeves pictured below. If you're more ambitious, or a fellow author, you can make some for your own readers and have them professionally printed. See below.

Each side is designed to be printed out on 8.5" x 11" white card stock. Print out the front, flip it over and print out the inside of the card.
Then cut where indicated and fold along the center. Ta-da, you're done.

Link to the high-resolution front of the trading card
Link to the high-resolution inside of the trading card

I used t keep favorite books, but with moving from one state to another and just keeping up with all the changes we go through in life, the books had to go!

I wish I had started these keepsakes a long time ago.

Professionally Printed? Maybe.

Click here to download the pdf template for the printer.

I have designed an inside of the card so you can fill in a little bit about how the book affected you, what was going on in your life at the time, and more.

These are fun to create and fill in at the end of your favorite books -- or even at the end of every book. These cards will become a lifetime diary of where you were and what was going on when you were reading them. They require so little space to keep one for each book you're finished.

I believe this size also fits into these pocket pages that are sold at Amazon.com.

No matter how big your apartment or home, these keepsakes can fit. No matter how little storage you have, everyone can fit a binder or a keepsake box. This is an easy way to keep track of all of the events in your life.

It's an affordable and fun book craft for those who like to keep up with how many books you read each year.

For those of you who are more ambitious, or perhaps other authors, you may decide to have your Favorite Book Cards printed. Click on the image above to see a larger picture of what you can get for just $10.70!

Simply download this template and create the front of the image. Then create a backside with some of the suggested questions in my example above, or design your own card back.

Click to download a pdf format for a playing card

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Click on the graphic of my books and you will be brought to a page on my website where you can read a sample of my books in your browser. It's much easier than downloading samples from Amazon.

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I used to keep so many of my favorite books in bookcases. Through the years due to moving as well as converting to an eReader, I don't have many books around anymore. I'm not complaining! I still remember packing them in boxes every time I moved.

I recently saw these Art trading cards that artists use to send out copies of their work or trade with other authors. I plan to do trading cards with all of my books in the future.

They fit perfectly in the trading card sheets to the left that I'm sure you've seen. These are from Amazon.com

If you click here, you can download a high resolution .png from Google Drive that can be printed out at one time onto white card stock. Then you only need to fold it in half, and fill in the memories. There is a think dotted line along the edges where you can cut it out.

I'm excited myself to document my favorite books because they get me through so many events in my life. I remember reading this book when I first decided to write a novel. Someone told me to find a novel I loved and read it for ideas. This is the novel I read. I could read this book every year!

Now, I have an actual keepsake with notes about inspiring me to write my own novels.