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Deanna wrote: "Quick Question - I know it says if using ebooks, use the printed copy page number for count - what if its a book that hasn't been released in print yet? The book i'm getting ready to read is a Sam..."Guesstimation is OK =D. It is hard to "page" count e-books so you have the option of using the printed page count. Since this book doesn't have a paper version, feel free to use a book of similar length.
Thanks Kate for helping Deanna
one last question!! will a pre-order reset my number? I have the Mary Balogh pre-ordered and totally forgot about it and it showed up this morning...I hope not (I ordered it back in december...)
Thanks Kate! I did the math - because I leave my kindle in the same font size and took the locations of a book with known page numbers and some simple math later...(ok, so i'm slightly dorky...haha)Kenjii ~*~Black Kat~**~ wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Quick Question - I know it says if using ebooks, use the printed copy page number for count - what if its a book that hasn't been released in print yet? The book i'm getting ready t..."
Deanna, preorders won't mess up and reset your count. Same with paperback swap as you don't always have alot of control over when those come through. The idea is not to order or buy new books during the challenge. Delivery isn't a problem. :) (And a few of us have been known to make a quick purchase between challenges, after one ends before a new one starts. lol)
yay! ok, i think i'm done on questions now! Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" wrote: "Deanna, preorders won't mess up and reset your count. Same with paperback swap as you don't always have alot of control over when those come through. The idea is not to order or buy new books durin..."
Also, buying rewards from winning a previous challenge doesn't break the rules as you earned those. :) Incentive to win. hehe Oh, and library books aren't a problem either as you aren't buying them.
Deanna: Great "newbie" questions though. Its a challenge but sometimes confusing challenge. So I am glad your getting clarity =D.
I am glad for it too. I hadn't know the answer to all of those questions. Thanks for asking them and getting clarification for all of us.
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
336 pages - Risky Business - Nora Roberts - 21/02/10 *****
192 pages - Adopted: Outback Baby - Barbara Hannay - 21/02/10 ****
304 pages - Service of All the Dead - Colin Dexter - 23/02/10 *****
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge LEADERBOARDDuration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
BJ Rose = RESET to Zero
Briansgirl/Kate = 242 pages
Debbie = 298 pages
Deanna = 699 pages
Jane = 832 pages
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
304 pp.: Dead and Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Feb 22 (2*)
I have 2 good things to say about this book - it helped me in two challenges, and it only cost 25 cents!!
Total Pages = 304
BJ Rose wrote: "I have 2 good things to say about this book - it helped me in two challenges, and it only cost 25 cents!! ..."I guess it could be worse! lol I see you gave it only one star.
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge LEADERBOARDDuration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
Briansgirl/Kate = 242 pages
Debbie = 298 pages
BJ Rose = 304 pages
Deanna = 699 pages
Jane = 832 pages
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
298 pages Prisoner (2/21) ★★★★☆
336 pages Future Hope: Book 1 of the ITP Series (2/23) ★★★☆☆
112 pages = (2 x 56)bonus Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Superwoman (2/23) ★★★★☆
total pages: 858/2010
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Fortunately for me, I liked this book a lot more than the last one I posted! It reminded me somewhat of Jane Austen's Emma, altho I liked Flora Poste a lot more than I did the character of Emma.
233 pp.: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Feb 23 (4*)
Added to:
304 pp.: Dead and Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Feb 22 (2*)
Total Pages = 537
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge LEADERBOARDDuration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
Briansgirl/Kate = 242 pages
BJ Rose = 537 pages
Deanna = 699 pages
Jane = 832 pages
Debbie = 858 pages
here's my updated page count;Winter Olympics Count-off Challenge
Current Page Total - 1049/2010 - 52.19%
Harvard's Education - Suzanne Brockmann - 249 pages
Snowbound - Larissa Ione - 225 pages (x2 - hero is former olympic bronze medalist) - 450 pages
Dark Chance - Melissa Lopez - 126 pages (guesstimate based on kindle locations)
Kiss Me Again - Dee Tenorio - 224 pages
2010 Winter Olympics ChallengeDuration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
2/21 Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (74 x 2) = 144 pages
**Reset to Zero**
2/22 Magic Tree House Research Guide: Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (121 x 2) = 242
2/24 The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch: And Many More Mysteries of America's Past by Barb Karg = 388 pages
Total = 630
ahhh!!! must hurry up and finish this challenge!! ebay has the two outlander books i don't have on audio for auction and I wanna get them before they go, but I refuse to cave!! haha!
lol, oh go ahead and cave, I was in the lead for about 2 seconds. I have never done that in this challenge. lol
i refuse to! i'm too dang competitive! but they have buy it now, so I can get them as my reward when i'm done if i win! (and they are used...lol!)Debbie wrote: "lol, oh go ahead and cave, I was in the lead for about 2 seconds. I have never done that in this challenge. lol"
Should I or shouldn't I? lol Some of us that do this challenge regularly do occassionally cave if we find an offer too good to refuse. Then again, winning feels soooo good. (Since I only won once in all of last year. lol I've doubled my record this year already. hehe)
lol sounds like a plan to me. lol Are those the Diana Gabaldon you are referring to?
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
336 pages - Risky Business - Nora Roberts - 21/02/10 *****
192 pages - Adopted: Outback Baby - Barbara Hannay - 21/02/10 ****
304 pages - Service of All the Dead - Colin Dexter - 23/02/10 *****
304 pages - Secret of Annexe 3 - Colin Dexter - 24/02/10 *****
A day off and home alone allowed me to read another of Colin Dexter's Morse mysteries !
yep - audible has 1-4 and 7 in unabridged format, but there is something going on with the rights for 5 and 6, so they only have them in abridged (and i refuse to listen to an 800 page book in 10 hours because they've cut the good stuff out!)Debbie wrote: "lol sounds like a plan to me. lol Are those the Diana Gabaldon you are referring to?"
know what you mean. I have a couple of them in my teetering TBR. Let me know when you get around to reading them, if I don't have too much going already maybe we can read them together (at least the first one).
oh i've read them (multiple times) and loved them - but since I drive an hour each way to work every day, i listen to them in the car - i mean for 50hrs each, that is a whole month of driving (almost)Debbie wrote: "know what you mean. I have a couple of them in my teetering TBR. Let me know when you get around to reading them, if I don't have too much going already maybe we can read them together (at least ..."
2010 Winter Olympics ChallengeDuration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
2/21 Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (74 x 2) = 144 pages
**Reset to Zero**
2/22 Magic Tree House Research Guide: Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (121 x 2) = 242
2/23 The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch: And Many More Mysteries of America's Past by Barb Karg = 388 pages
2/24 Sandy's Rocket (Spongebob Squarepants) by Steven Banks = 61 pages
Total = 691
Deanna wrote: "yep - audible has 1-4 and 7 in unabridged format, but there is something going on with the rights for 5 and 6, so they only have them in abridged..."Gabaldon talked about this on her website or in a Q&A - she didn't have enough clout as a writer when she signed the original audio rights contract, and that still has a year or two to go on books 5 & 6. So the unabridged versions of those two cost an arm and a leg! Now she can write her own ticket, so book 7 came out in reasonably-priced unabridged immediately. I agree with you completely about abridged versions!
yep - i ts going to cost me quite a bit (about $175 for the two) - but i'm willing to pay it...since I'll listen to them multiple times!BJ Rose wrote: "Deanna wrote: "yep - audible has 1-4 and 7 in unabridged format, but there is something going on with the rights for 5 and 6, so they only have them in abridged..."
Gabaldon talked about this on h..."
wow. That's expensive.
yep, but can't find them any cheaper and they aren't even available new anymore (at least that i've been able to find) - people on amazon are selling them for over $200 each - I did the break down on one that is going to cost me $80 - and its about 48 hours long - that still works out to less than a cost of a book that I could read in an hour...so its expensive, but well worth it for my sanity of driving in DC traffic every morning ;)Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" wrote: "wow. That's expensive."
I can understand that. Last year I found a great deal at a thrift shop... the first four Harry Potter books as audio books on cassette tapes. First was opened, but all were there. Other 3 books were still sealed in plastic. Cost: $1.00 each. I got lucky.
Winter Olympics Count-off ChallengeCurrent Page Total - 1410/2010 - 70.15%
Harvard's Education - Suzanne Brockmann - 249 pages
Snowbound - Larissa Ione - 225 pages (x2 - hero is former olympic bronze medalist) - 450 pages
Dark Chance - Melissa Lopez - 126 pages (guesstimate based on kindle locations)
Kiss Me Again - Dee Tenorio - 224 pages
Dragonfly In Amber - Diana Gabaldon - finished up audiobook, (started from chapter 42) - 165 pages (MMPB version)
Five Greatest Warriors - Matt Reilly (starting at page 49) - IN PROGRESS - 100 pages so far
Master of Seduction - Kinsley McGregor - IN PROGRESS - 96 pages
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
298 pages Prisoner (2/21) ★★★★☆
336 pages Future Hope: Book 1 of the ITP Series (2/23) ★★★☆☆
112 pages = (2 x 56)bonus Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Superwoman (2/23) ★★★★☆
262 pages Jinx (2/25) ★★★★☆
total pages: 1120/2010
I'm out. Or Reset to Zero. I bought some books today. Let me explain. I'm overweight and trying to lose weight. My doctor said I should walk 30 mins a day. My parents are giving me their treadmill they aren't using anymore (they got gym memberships), but before we can move it, I'm trying to exercise. I decided to walk to the thrift shop a mile away. It's 20ºF out with packed snow and ice. To motivate myself, after bundling up in hiking boots, ear muffs, etc to walk the two miles, I let myself buy a few books if I could find anything. (Although, I had to carry it home! lol).I got:
(For $1 each)
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
Rewriting Monday by Jodi Thomas
(In a bag that cost $1 - works out to 10 cents a book.)
The Sergeant's Secret Son by Bonnie Gardner
Having Her Boss's Baby by Susan Mallery
Practice Makes Pregnant by Lois Faye Dyer
Home to Family: Heart of the Rockies by Ann Evans
Mad About the Major: In Uniform by Roz Denny Fox
Quinn's Woman by Susan Mallery
Wedding Bell Blues by Heather Graham
Carrera's Bride by Diana Palmer
Glory, Glory by Linda Lael Miller
A Game Of Chance by Linda Howard
(In a bag that cost $4 - works out to 40 cents a book. I bought the bag because I collect Carla Neggars books and didn't have this one and it's OOP. Have to see if any of the others are decent or not. lol Had to buy the whole sealed bag to get the one book I wanted.)Family Matters by Carla Neggers
Jared's Love - Child by Sandra Field
Heart of Honor by Caroline Courtney (Regency Romance) (1980)
Corsican Gambit by Sandra Marton
The Reluctant Hero by Lenora Worth
His Runaway Son by Dee Holmes
To Have & to Hold by Lori Herter (1983)
Sea Nurse by Diana Douglas (1970)
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré (1965)
Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn (1974)
Those last two are a bit different. The rest are romances. Not a bad haul for $7 plus tax.
Wow, I say that was worth it - congrats on walking there and back. I use to do that all the time. Good for you on both books and walking.
Thanks Debbie. I'm determined to lose weight!
Go for it Kate!! Have you considered Audiobooks - I love them for working out or driving? and I know on PBS if you are a member you can get them (i think they cost 2 credits)
I have just a handful of audiobooks. A few are abridged however. I'm looking forward to my Louis L'Amour westerns read by Willie Nelson on my next car trip.
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
336 pages - Risky Business - Nora Roberts - 21/02/10 *****
192 pages - Adopted: Outback Baby - Barbara Hannay - 21/02/10 ****
304 pages - Service of All the Dead - Colin Dexter - 23/02/10 *****
304 pages - Secret of Annexe 3 - Colin Dexter - 24/02/10 *****
064 pages - Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - 25/02/10***
048 pages - Natural Treatment of Fibroid Tumors and Endometriosis - Susan M. Lark - 25/02/10****
192 pages - The Konstantos Marriage Demand - Kate Walker - 25/02/10***
Winter Olympics Count-off ChallengeCurrent Page Total - 1522/2010 - 75.72%
Harvard's Education - Suzanne Brockmann - 249 pages
Snowbound - Larissa Ione - 225 pages (x2 - hero is former olympic bronze medalist) - 450 pages
Dark Chance - Melissa Lopez - 126 pages (guesstimate based on kindle locations)
Kiss Me Again - Dee Tenorio - 224 pages
Dragonfly In Amber - Diana Gabaldon - finished up audiobook, (started from chapter 42) - 165 pages (MMPB version)
Five Greatest Warriors - Matt Reilly (starting at page 49) - IN PROGRESS - 122 pages so far
Master of Seduction - Kinsley McGregor - IN PROGRESS - 186 pages
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
298 pages Prisoner (2/21) ★★★★☆
336 pages Future Hope: Book 1 of the ITP Series (2/23) ★★★☆☆
112 pages = (2 x 56)bonus Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Superwoman (2/23) ★★★★☆
262 pages Jinx (2/25) ★★★★☆
16 pages In the Beginning (2/26) ★★☆☆☆
total pages: 1136/2010
Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" wrote: "... I'm looking forward to my Louis L'Amour westerns read by Willie Nelson on my next car trip."OK! Now my brother-in-law really would love you forever - so I'm not telling him about this, 'cause I really love my sister!
2010 Winter Olympics Challenge Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
364 pp.: Prey by Michael Crichton Feb 25 (4*)
this was scarier than Jurassic Park because I can see this kind of accident happening in nanotechnology experiments - and you just know that there are lots of experiments where good things can go bad.
Added to:
233 pp.: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Feb 23 (4*)
304 pp.: Dead and Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Feb 22 (2*)
Total Pages = 901
BJ Rose wrote: "Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" wrote: "... I'm looking forward to my Louis L'Amour westerns read by Willie Nelson on my next car trip."OK! Now my brother-in-law really would love you fore..."
lol
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Duration: Feb 21 through March 7th
Total Pages Needed: 2010 pages
Reward: 2 new or 4 used books
Bonus: Take double page counts for any book with "Olympics" in title, a book about any Olympic Champion or written by any Olympic Champion. (Olympic Champion will include anyone who received any color Olympic medal).
2/21 Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (74 x 2) = 144 pages
**Reset to Zero**
2/22 Magic Tree House Research Guide: Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (121 x 2) = 242
Total = 242