The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON—The Columbia County Rural Library District is moving ahead with summer programing despite the pandemic.

Young readers are encouraged to sign up for their new Summer Reading Program, which began on June 15.

The program gets a technological spin this summer as readers are encouraged to sign up for a computer application called Beanstack. Touted as the ‘Fitbit for Reading,’ the app lets patrons time reading sessions, log books by scanning their ISBN numbers, keep a log of current and past reading, track daily reading stats, and achieve streaks for reading multiple days in a row.

The librar...