Round II - Tower Teams Read-a-Thon

[Rebecca NJ]

Moonstone Update

Leslie - pages read: 322


Chris - pages read 448

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Team Cerulean (AKA Hobbit Blue) update

Ezinwanyi - 351 pgs (theme book)


Tea - 304 pgs


Turtlecollector - 351 pgs

[Lisa Kay]

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "LOL okay......like I can really stop you LMBO!!!!!"

No... you can't! **blows raspberry**

[Cathie]

Mini Challenge #1



(Atomic Tangerine)

[Amanda]

Wild Blue Yonder Update
Sashana: 374 pages (goal of 900) 1 Theme Book Read

[Barb]

Sonia, do you want teams to post a book-by-book report, or would you rather we wait and report once or twice a day?

[Jex]

Mini Challenge #1 (Cadet Blue)
I want to take a picture but I'm too lazy to walk downstairs to my book shelf, therefore, virtual is what ya get. I put my shelf on random and chose the first 5 green books I came across:

[Thilde]

Mini-Challenge #1 Green with Envy!
Team Mauvelous

[Ellinor]

Mini-Challenge #1 Green with Envy!
Team Magenta Mix-Up

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Mini-Challenge #1 - Green with Envy
Team Leather Jacket Black




I didn't realise how many books I have with green covers! So 4 of these I have read and one (Artemis Fowl) is TBR

[Sonia]

Barb wrote: "Sonia, do you want teams to post a book-by-book report, or would you rather we wait and report once or twice a day?"

once or twice will be better - easier to keep track

[❀Tea❀]

Hello Sonia :)

Hobbits are having little problem. As you can see in this post, 3 members have finished books, but only for one member (TC) stats are changed. I can see all books in details and view books in 2013. Just that orange thingy is stuck.

Any ideas?

Edit:
Looks like I fixed it :)
Clicking on books and pages doesn't change a thing, but after I clicked on publication year it showed all books :D

*goes to update spreadsheet finally*

Edit 2:
I have to click on pub year every time to see real stats :( So I guess it's not really fixed.

[Sonia]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Hello Sonia :)

Hobbits are having little problem. As you can see in this post, 3 members have finished books, but only for one member (TC) stats are changed. I can see all books in details and vie..."

It looks like a refreshing issue like sometimes the team challenge widget has

*sigh*

I didn't want to go there but... it looks to me that the alternative will be going to the read shelf, add the num_pages view and manually count them.

I'm at work now, but I'll prepare the spreadsheet to this option too, and will consider the higher number from the too to point calculation.

[joanne]

Team Cerulean, Mini Challenge #1 - Green with Envy

[Rebecca NJ]

Sonia - Team Moonstone is also having the same problem. No matter what I click, I cannot get the page numbers to change. The book is showing up in the list of read books for 2013.

At this time it is only affecting 1 member and it was the first book finished so you would think that it would be refreshed by now. I can check later and let you know if there has been any changes.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Mine did the same today, it seems to take a while to refresh. When I did what Tea suggested (clicking on publication year) it seemed to force the refresh

[❀Tea❀]

Karen wrote: "Mine did the same today, it seems to take a while to refresh. When I did what Tea suggested (clicking on publication year) it seemed to force the refresh"

It forces refresh but it doesn't stay that way. If you go check your stats again, it will be back to earlier one.

I might have found solution. I don't know if it's temporary or not. I've marked book I haven't read so far as read, went to stats, clicked on pub year (which fixed stats). Then deleted said book and my stats are now OK. We'll see if they stay that way after another book's done :)

[Rebecca NJ]

I couldn't even get it to force refresh. :(

[Sonia]

OK, I experimented with Alexa from team Wild Blue Yonder - because she was the one I knew about book reads without having to go through the thread. Her stats are updated but it probably has to be with GR updating settings.

So, I've added another tab on the spreadsheet with the pages read.

I will probably opt for this solution since is more reliable.

books to consider pages read - the ones marked as read within days May 1st and May 12th.

Have to get back to work now. Any questions about the new rating system, please let me know and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

[Sonia]

I forgot to write down how I will do the page validation

*facepalm*

1. Go to the read shelf
2. add the page number to the view
3. Order by book read
4. Register page numbers on the spreadsheet (on the tab named Participants Read Pages)
see Alexa from team Wild Blue Yonder as an example - she's the only one I updated the page numbers

5. The number will appear in the Total Pages Read column on the Participants tab this step is not working yet

Around 9 PM (GMT/BST) I will update the spreadsheet to reflect steps above

Meanwhile, the team captains can use that process to track their teammates reads.

[❀Tea❀]

To lighten mood little more...

We don't know when things stopped updating. Could this mean that starting number of pages is also wrong? I don't think anybody thought to check if things are 'correct'

[Sonia]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "To lighten mood little more...

We don't know when things stopped updating. Could this mean that starting number of pages is also wrong? I don't think anybody thought to check if things are 'correct'"

I thought about that possibility when one of Mary's books from Cadet Blue weren't on the stats... hence the switch of method.

I should have checked first, specially with all the refreshing experience from the challenge books.

*shakes head in disbelief*

[Rhonda]

Team Leather Jacket Black - Mini Challenge #1

[Mary X]

I deleted that book because I finished it before the challenge started but that it wouldn't mess things up if I marked it read during the 2hr before start time but with a 4/30 finish date.

[JoLene]

Mini-Challenge #1: Green with Envy
Team Mauvelous

Recently read green covers:

[Rosina]

Mini-Challenge #1 - Green with Envy
Team Leather Jacket Black

[JoLene]

I'm back again with a question.......
it seems like we have a whole lot of tracking going on.

As many teams, I have a Readathon thread in my team group on NBRCII group. Each member is supposed to have a post and track the books that they have read. I don't want to ask my team members to post on multiple places.

Am I supposed to then post a daily summary here for Sonia to use in tracking? It now seems that individual team members are submitting their books and pages here.

As a team captain, I thought I was supposed to be doing the validating, etc......I am only asking because it's seems like a lot for Sonia to do for everyone, and having lots of people "double-tracking" is taking time away from the primary activity of reading :-D

[JoLene]

Also, I wanted to point out that people who read graphic novels either need to wait to log them until after the readathon or there needs to be a way to have exceptions to back out the pages read.

(I do read a fair number of graphic novels :-D)

[Sonia]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "I deleted that book because I finished it before the challenge started but that it wouldn't mess things up if I marked it read during the 2hr before start time but with a 4/30 finish date."

I know Mary. What I meant was that I first notice the issue with the refreshing because of your book.

But, the change on method will walk around that "bug". And is a reliable source, since everybody has a way of validating books added and pages read :)

[Phyllis]

The Green With Envy challenge.

[Sonia]

JoLene wrote: "I'm back again with a question.......
it seems like we have a whole lot of tracking going on.

As many teams, I have a Readathon thread in my team group on NBRCII group. Each member is supposed to..."

They are? I thought only captains were doing that. I'll probably will open a new thread on the sister group for captains to post the RaT updates and page validations.

I'll see to that after work & gym.

I'll beta test the new method, will post instructions and will delegate each team's book validation to their captains/co-captains.

Menawhile, this thread will work for mini-challenge posting - again, participation is not mandatory, and it's just for fun no points involved - and questions/issues, and everything else.

JoLene wrote: "Also, I wanted to point out that people who read graphic novels either need to wait to log them until after the readathon or there needs to be a way to have exceptions to back out the pages read.

..."

Since the validation is going to be book by book on the read shelf, graphic novels can be marked as read, unless the captain/co-captain says otherwise, because we can check on the type of the book before counting it for the read-a-thon.

[✿Claire✿]

I wonder whether the problem with the updating is a time issue? I had only two people with increased page numbers this morning (and about 4 had added books) but now everyone who has posted books since has had an increase in page number

[Sherri]

Team WBY-Mini-Challenge #1:Green with Envy

[Sonia]

Claire wrote: "I wonder whether the problem with the updating is a time issue? I had only two people with increased page numbers this morning (and about 4 had added books) but now everyone who has posted books si..."

Yes, it is a time issue. Which I wouldn't give that much importance if not for the chaos I'm predicting it will cause on the end of the RaT event.

So, better safe than sorry, we'll check pages using another method.

[✿Claire✿]

Sonia wrote: "Claire wrote: "I wonder whether the problem with the updating is a time issue? I had only two people with increased page numbers this morning (and about 4 had added books) but now everyone who has ..."

I think I missed a post while I was typing!! That's what happens when I'm sneaking on here instead of analysing results lol!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Deleted my comment because I see that Sonia has a new way of tracking. Not sure how I missed those posts, but my notifications didn't show them as being new! blah.

[Ozana]

Mini challenge #1 Green with Envy

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

JoLene wrote: "I'm back again with a question.......
it seems like we have a whole lot of tracking going on.

As many teams, I have a Readathon thread in my team group on NBRCII group. Each member is supposed to..."

Yeah, I'm not sure why there is tracking going on throughout this thread. It's confusing things for some people. And I don't think we have to do a daily track report, do we?

[Eni]

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Eni wrote: "mhmm i have no clue if i can find 5 green books o_o i stopped buying books a while back.. now i just legally dl them *cough* i must check! but tomorrow! cause it's 2am here and i barely..."

Teresa i wanted to use my own books! take a picture and post it here.. but sadly i just realized it barely has any o_o i have 1 green book on my bookshelve O_O so i went to the virtual one instead :( (and yes virtual counts 2 =p)
i hope these count cause i found out that apparently i have greenism! (the refusal to read green books!) and harry potter isn't on my read shelf cause i was 2 lazy when i signed up for GoodReads so i never tagged all the books i read lol. Harry Potter is actually the only green book i actually own o_O

Mini-Challenge #1 Green with Envy!
Member of Team Tickle Me Pink

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Are there any rules about large print books or can they be marked as read the same as other books?

[Lisa Kay]

Eni wrote: "...hope these count cause i found out that apparently i have greenism!...Harry Potter is actually the only green book i actually own o_O"

LOL! Love the term, "greenism," Eni! Wow. Well, if you have to have one, that is the one to have!

[Lisa Kay]

Turtlecollector wrote: "Are there any rules about large print books or can they be marked as read the same as other books?"

Personally, I think we should total the regular paperback page count for these. It is only fair. But...Sonia's decision.

[Phyllis]

Is that any book from a series or book #1?

[Sonia]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Eni wrote: "...hope these count cause i found out that apparently i have greenism!...Harry Potter is actually the only green book i actually own o_O"

LOL! Love the term, "greenism," Eni! Wow. W..."

I agree. The person who bought that book has an excellent taste :o)

[Sonia]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Turtlecollector wrote: "Are there any rules about large print books or can they be marked as read the same as other books?"

Personally, I think we should total the regular paperback page count for..."

I agree with Lisa Kay.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Mini-Challenge #2:
“Behind Enemy Lines”:

Team Members are doing “reconnaissance” and bringing back intel on the enemy's books! Sneak into another team's “view books: read”* in their challenge page and select any book listed that catches your fancy.

Post a bookcover link to said book and state the Team & member from which it came! State different reasons why you are posting that bookcover. Ideas, such as:

• Gave the same star rating as I did.
• I want to read it!
• They have a different bookcover - which I prefer to mine.
• Loved their review, etc.**

*Feel free to use the Google Team Assignments Round II Spreadsheet to get an overall lay of the land. Those coded in aqua are set to "private."
**Please respect the taste and genre of other readers. This in NOT an exercise in bashing.



Sugested by Team Cadet Blue

[Stacie]

Mini Challenge #1
Team Tickle Me Pink

[Eni]

ohhhhhhhhh awesome challenge. i loved it! though browsing through all those ppl made me realize how much of a slow reader i am >_<

Mini-Challenge #2: “Behind Enemy Lines”

Team: Moonstone
Team member: Kristin

Book:

Reasons: i loved the cover! looked at the description and ended up adding this to my to-read shelf =)

totally feel like a spy =o

[Lisa Kay]

Mini-Challenge #2: “Behind Enemy Lines”
Cadet Blue

I cautiously snuck in to Mango Tango territory and looked at what Steven has read since the R-a-T started. He posted A is for Alibi and gave a really neat goodreads review - short and sweet! Love this series, and have been thinking about revisiting them all over again via audio.

[Steven]

Mini-Challenge #2: "Behind Enemy Lines"
Mango Tango

I put on my invisibility cloak (the only Hallow I've found on my quest so far) and tiptoed through a bunch of different team libraries... straight into the "Forbidden" section!

There I found that Ashley Marie over at Wild Blue Yonder has been reading Forbidden books... and one of the covers caught my eye. It's a book I've been thinking about reading anyways, and the cover always gets my attention! Plus, the magical moving photos of people she had left in her review cracked me up! So I snuck it under my cloak, stole out of the library, and, with much relief, made it back into my house common room without getting caught.

I smiled to myself mischeviously as I slipped the copy of into my shelves, waiting for it's turn to be read.