Library challenge update

I'll be giving a fuller report later, but here is the status of my challenge as of my original deadline, 3 PM EDT on April 2:

I pledged $1.00 per comment on my LiveJournal and Blogspot blogs, and 50 cents per new Twitter follower, to be divided equally between the Cheltenham and Philadelphia libraries.

LiveJournal: 52 comments = $52.00
Blogspot: 23 comments (25 - 1 comment by me - 1 duplicate) = $23.00
Twitter: 2299 followers - 2270 original followers = 29 new followers = $14.50

I also applied the $1.00 per comment pledge to my participation in the Fool for Books giveaway hop, which continues through midnight tonight.  So far, that post has 102 comments, for another $102.

That's $191.50 and counting. I capped my original donation at $100, and I will give at least $100, but I have a feeling I'll be giving more. I'll do a final report after midnight tonight, when the giveaway hop closes, but I'm inclined to make every comment count in one way or another.

Meanwhile, many of the other challenges continue, so if you love libraries, please click through to these blogs and comment there!

Sarah Mullen Gilbert (The Writing Cave)
Janet Fox (Through the Wardrobe)
Margo Rowder (Margoblog)
Angela De Groot
Amy Brecount White
Kimberly Sabatini (Jess Free Falcon)
Jessica Leader
Colleen Rowan Kosinski
Jessica Shea Spotswood
Marine Corps Nomad
Kimberlee Conway Ireton
C. Lee McKenzie (The Write Game)

And THANK YOU!!--especially to those of you who tweeted or blogged about this challenge, who clicked around commenting on all the blogs, and who donated to your own libraries. For the sake of my own sanity and time-management, during these blog challenges I suspend my usual practice of responding to every comment. But I still read every comment, and I appreciate every one. (And so will the libraries!)