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Discovering graded reader books. I've been so terrified of reading long texts that I started with Finding Hua Ma, in the Mandarin Companion series. It's clearly below my level of vocabulary (it's graded for 150 and I'm in the HSK 3/4) yet I do find it a bit exhausting anyway. The boost to confidence is great though, and a wonderful change from the mind-numbing repetitions of the final lesson in Duolingo...
I'm definitely getting more graded readers! It's exactly what I needed.