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How many of our Club Books have you read?
yep, put a 1 in the read column and then highlight the filled portion of the column plus a few extra rows and then click on the Autosum symbol and it will total the books you've read. I've added a TBR column for the books I own and a Nope column for the ones I'll never read (the Dr Who book).
If you only want to know how many you’ve read, I strongly suggest that you use the mod account method! It takes two clicks. (One to go to the thread through the link above and another to click the link in that thread.)edit: Unless the books aren’t marked as read on GR, obviously.
I see, I clicked on read and it showed 118 books in common and read, but I'll take a look at the spreadsheet later to confirm it.
In case anybody is looking for more detail on how to access and work with the group shelf spreadsheet, maybe add a few really simple statistics for yourself, I did a 20 minute video tutorial. I’m not sure how helpful it will be, and it's aimed at beginners, but I posted the link over in the “Help! How do I [Do That Thing] on Goodreads?” topic here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Thank you! I’m a total beginner with spreadsheets. I have to use one that was created before my time but it doesn’t do calculations, so it’s fairly straightforward. Anything with calculations is beyond me.
That's very helpful YouKneeK, thanks! I looked at the video and now my number of books read is the more realistic number of 87. I added a TBR column to add the books I want to prioritize too.
Diane, the calculations do get a lot easier once you get some practice with them, and after the syntax starts to make sense. But they can look intimidating when you first just see a bunch of symbols and letters that don’t seem to mean anything.That’s great, Leticia! I’m really glad it was helpful.
Leticia, I checked with the mod account, and you do have 118 group books marked as read on Goodreads. If you've actually only read 87 of them, I wonder what the other ones are and why they're marked as read?!This would drive me crazy, I do checks like this for my own shelves all the time, and if I can't find the reason for the difference, my brain explodes. As you can tell, so far I've always found the culprit :D
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Anna wrote: "Leticia, I checked with the mod account, and you do have 118 group books marked as read on Goodreads. If you've actually only read 87 of them, I wonder what the other ones are and why they're marke..."Goodreads shows a lot of books I initially posted as 'to read' as 'read'. Why it does that I have no idea.
Leticia, I'm wondering if you added them to Goodreads in a way that makes it think you've already read them? For example if you go to a book page, and add it to a non-exclusive shelf, it'll automatically mark it as read. A book has to be on at least one exclusive shelf. If you haven't added any of your own, the built in exclusive shelves are Read, Want to read and Currently reading. Read is the default shelf for any books added, unless you specify another one. So if you have a shelf called "Maybe" for example, and you want to add books to that, you'll have to either make that shelf exclusive, or add a book as Want to read first, and then Maybe.GR Help about exclusive shelves: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...
It was probably that, I'll look out for duplicates marked as read and take care next time I add new books.
I am a newbie, but this club introduced me to many underrated books
With the help of Mod Account and Anna, I finally noticed that I'm past the 100 books read mark, yay! It happened some time during last year, I just missed it for some reason.I've read 109 books so far, mod account showed 107, but I know that for me it misses The Fellowship of the Ring (all books in one edition vs. that only one) and Grimm Brothers (not bothered to mark that one up).
This year I plan to get above 120 books read, so slow and steady it goes :) I'll never get to the all books read from the shelf mark anyways, since I've DNFd a few books from the shelf already.
As for what to bring to the clubhouse, hmm... Maybe some of that new Fazer Caramel Popcorn chocolate and some Fazer Dark Chocolate with taste of Cherry Truffle, which is also a new flavour. Hope you enjoy!
Congratulations, Maarit!(I would count DNF's as read from the shelves as well - you gave it a try, that's all that counts - I'm doing the same)
That’s grand, Maarit! And you better hide your treats from me, or I’ll it it all myself!I would also encourage counting DNFs.
I also have The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales marked as unread, because I can't be 100% if I've read every single story in it. I'm not particularly looking forward to actually reading it in the future though, so I may mark it as read at some point :)
There is so much repetition in that collection that I kind of feel like you should get full credit just for reading a portion of it, because the portion you read is probably repeated in some manner throughout the rest. I spread it out over 5 months back in 2017, got through it all, and I still haven’t fully recovered. :)
YKK, yeah that's why I don't want to read it :/
The Andrew Lang various colored Fairy Tales are worse with logs of repetitionThe Fairy Books of Andrew Lang: All Stories in the 12 Volumes / Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series With ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF ALL 420 STORIES
I read like 50% of the grimm's book before I had to take a break I may try to read like one story a day just to be done with it but omg it is so repetitive I was like am I crazy or did I reread this page five times.
LOL, yes. And then you finish one repetitive story to see a new variation of the same repetitive story. My strategy was to read a little bit before bed, after putting down my main book for the night. It was sure to put me to sleep if I wasn’t tired already!
I was just updating my personal SFFBC spreadsheet with next month's picks and checking off what I've read this month and I've now hit 200.
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congrats - I know I'll never read that many
I also hit 200 this month. Thinking it over... It feels great!
It took a lot of reading and a pandemic.
Congrats HeyT and Bonnie! That's a lot of reading.
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200! We might have needed an addition on the clubhouse but of course it is magically expanding.
Congrats HeyT and Bonnie, that's amazing!
Congrats to 200!!!Also, love the idea of magical expansion, Hank! Could we wish for a whirlpool and Spa for the 200-club area? (It would be a nice incentive as I still need another 39 books)
It is cold here in Colorado right now so I am completely on board for the Spa!
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I think i did this correctly, 115. I had to really go back in time thinking on some of the titles.
That’s an impressive first count, Mikael! I think when I first joined the group in 2014, I had some ridiculously low number like 12. :) I was a latecomer to SF&F though.
12! You had been doing much better than me! I only have 9! >.<I did just start reading avidly again after a 12-year hiatus.
Goodness, that makes me feel old. T-T
Haha Kaili, sounds like you’re in a similar place reading-wise as I was a few years ago. Sometimes life causes favorite hobbies to fall by the wayside for a while, but it’s always fun to rediscover them!
YouKneeK wrote: "Haha Kaili, sounds like you’re in a similar place reading-wise as I was a few years ago. Sometimes life causes favorite hobbies to fall by the wayside for a while, but it’s always fun to rediscover..."You are right! :D I have absolutely loved getting back into it!
The Quantum Magician is part of this month's StoryBundlehttps://storybundle.com/scifi
there goes my TBR pile increasing
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There are more and more of people to have good conversations with at these Clubhouse Levels. 🤓For the ~200 celebration, the dessert I will be bringing is this Pineapple Gelato:
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I'm terrible with spreadsheets. Is there a way you can count the books you read in it?