Melanie’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2014)

Melanie’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

For task 8 "that was published in the 1980s", can this include a book that is a bindup of two stories from the 1980's but the bindup was published later?

For example, Once More for Love: Blithe Images / Search for Love by Nora Roberts was published in 2016 but it is made up of two of her works that were published in 1982. Would I be able to use this for that task?

Will we be getting the round 3 tasks soon?

Hoping this month is better than the last few months. I have a lot of books already published I need to catch up on plus 9 releasing this month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 36
Feedback Ratio: 85%

Books (ordered by pub date):





Added:


Finished:
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review
My Review My Review My Review My Review

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 87%

Team Lava No More is requesting to be bumped up to Magma as well.

Here is our spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Thank you.

I think what made me second guess it is that the FAQ says you can use it for each instance it is used but the example it gives it for a word used in more than one task.

Ok, so I know we can use a word more than once if it shows up in more than one task. What about when the same word shows up more than once in the same task?

Does everything we read have to go towards the challenge as long as it's eligible? Like if for instance, say my team finishes the 40 books for our level on day 10 out of 14. If we read during those last 4 days, are we required to add them and be bumped up a level? Or do we not have to because we completed everything needed for our team level?

Sorry I'm just not sure how it works as I haven't done a challenge before where the team reads within a specific level of books.

ETA: Removed my comment and moved to planning group to keep hidden.

Donna wrote: "Go ahead and send it. I will take a look."

I just sent you the link.

Minx wrote: "My only comment about scenario 1 would be that when we hit zone 3 we do largest point words to smallest. That way we get the most points possible in case we can’t finish the plan as is for some reason."

I agree that's the best plan.

I added a tab to the planning sheet with the words from scenario 1 listing in order of highest points to lowest (with the short ones worth the same amount in a random order that can be changed).

I can easily update the sheet if we find a different combination of words for higher points.

Donna, did Kate send you the planning sheet for zone 3? If not, I can PM it to you.

If she did, let me know what you think of Scenario 1 which would net us 1,300 points for the round. Minx had no objections to it and I don't think Kate did either. But if you are able to come up with a higher point scenario, add it to the planning sheet and we can do it instead.

Yes, I had a great time with everyone! I hope to see you all in future team challenges.

Donna wrote: "When does this challenge start?"

Here is the link to the countdown.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

It starts at 7AM EST this Monday, the 12th.

Donna wrote: "I already have a book picked out for 5 and I am working on finding books for 1 & 2. I shouldn't have a problem finding anything. I just can't edit the spreadsheet. "

That's great then we have all the countdown tasks covered.

I don't know how to add anyone, but how I got access was I PMed the mod account my email address along with a link to the team spreadsheet. So hopefully that will work?

Minx wrote: "For Zone 2, I have books for 1 & 3 if needed, will look for #2 right now. :D I was looking last night and I think I might have something that will work. :D


Also with the TinEye, do we include or exclude the background when looking at color percentage. Thanks. I just can't remember."

I believe for TinEye we include the background when looking for color. So you have to uncheck the box that excludes it by default. At least that's how I remember it being, but I could be confusing the rules of this group with another.

That's a good strategy Minx on the shorter books. I also picked easier reads for the countdown books with a short book (124 pages) and a quick read (cozy mystery 292 pages) so that I can finish them by Tuesday night.

I figure the faster we get through the countdown books the better as long as we all read for at least one of the tasks to avoid injury.

Speaking of that. Donna, do you have something that works for the remaining tasks (1, 2 or 5)? If needed, I can switch out my books if tasks 9 or 10 work better for you.

After the countdown tasks are done, if we decide to go with the strategy I suggested for max points that involved Safe Zone 2 (scenario 1 in my sheet unless someone else found one with more points), I do have books that work for all of the tasks in that zone except for #2. I just couldn't find a cover that had enough red with H-O-T in the author name.

Yeah I spent about an hour and a half on it this morning, but most of that time was putting together how much each word was worth. I may try looking some more later to see if there's any higher points combination.

Question about safe zone 3. When choosing words from the tasks, does the sections in parentheses count? For example in task 7, could we pick from "as listed on Goodreads" since it's part of the task?

Kate wrote: "This is great! I just sent you a PM with my email address. I can send Donna's along as well. I'm so glad we have a strategy. That was one of my biggest frustrations with wheel as I'm used to have a..."

I just sent you the link, go ahead and forward it to Donna. I set it up so anyone who has the link can edit (I couldn't figure out the email only option), which is why I wanted to PM it to you guys.

If you come up with any other high point scenarios, feel free to add them.

Also if it would help, once we pick which route we want to go I could add in another tab so we could plan the books we want to read for SZ3 then we could just move them to the official sheet as we finish each word.

Minx wrote: "please PM me, I would like to take a look at this and YES! I love your strategies!! I am all for the most points we can get! :D"

Ok, I just sent you the link. I think I set it up so that if you have the link, you should be able to edit. So if you come up with any other scenario that works, go ahead and add it.