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@Alison, Morning Star is really good, as the whole trilogy!@ Kerri, Asimov is my favourite author but I didn't read all the short stories in I, Robot yet.
@Amy, Shadow Scale is in my TBR since before its release. Thanks for reminding me of it! :)
I guess I don't read green and yellow books....
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong with that thing, but it said that this book
was 2.7% red and others that had a bunch of black like
and
it didn't say any black at all.
Shanna - At the bottom you need to uncheck the box to exclude background colors each time you use it. Then it will give you the correct percentages. :)Shaken turns out to be about 50% red and River Marked is 73% Black.
Juliana wrote: "@Alison, Morning Star is really good, as the whole trilogy!
@ Kerri, Asimov is my favourite author but I didn't read all the short stories in I, Robot yet.
@Amy, Shadow Scale is in my TBR since b..."
Shadow Scale was so good! You should definitely read it!
@ Kerri, Asimov is my favourite author but I didn't read all the short stories in I, Robot yet.
@Amy, Shadow Scale is in my TBR since b..."
Shadow Scale was so good! You should definitely read it!
Juliana wrote: "@Alison, Morning Star is really good, as the whole trilogy!@ Kerri, Asimov is my favourite author but I didn't read all the short stories in I, Robot yet.
@Amy, Shadow Scale is in my TBR since b..."
I really enjoyed most of the tales in I, Robot! I'd never read any Asimov before and it made me want to pick up some more.
Covers!Blue - 72%
Black - 87%
Red - 74%
Yellow - 64%
Green - 100%
Karen - You can use the TinEye website. The link is in the first post.
I'm not sure how to do this. Do I open the image in another tab and copy it? Or is there something else I need to do?
Blue - 98% AloneBlack - 75% Sam
Green - 71% The Way
Red - 66% Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Yellow - Having a lot of trouble finding one of these in my collection right now
I have no idea how to make these show up as covers, but the text should lead you to the book.
Karen ♐ wrote: "How do you find the % of the color?"I use this one. I used it for years and it works well. http://www.coolphptools.com/color_ext...
I save the cover on my computer then load it to the site.
Blue - 87.6 %
Black - 64.3 %
Green - 64 %
Red - 76%
Yellow 92.1 %-
A Spool of Blue ThreadLooking for Alaska
The Valley of Amazement
The Sleeping Dictionary
The Yellow House
All are 5-star reads for me!
All of these are books that I really loved and rated 5 stars. :-)Blue:
- 95.1% blue, Northern Lights by Nora Roberts (romantic suspense)Black:
- 64.8% black, Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow (urban fantasy)Red:
- 66.6% red, The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (sci-fi fantasy)Yellow:
- 84.1% yellow, Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts (fantasy/romantic suspense)Green:
- 98.5% green, After Glow by Jayne Castle (fantasy/paranormal romance)(And note that though the last two books are not first-in-series, the first books in their respective series were really great reads for me, too.)
Karen ♐ wrote: "I'm not sure how to do this. Do I open the image in another tab and copy it? Or is there something else I need to do?"Sorry, I had gone to bed and didn't see this.
With TinyEye it's pretty easy. Right click on whatever cover you want to look at. Choose "Copy Image Location". Copy that into the right hand box where it says "paste an image url". The click "Extract Colors".
If the whole cover doesn't show up, then scroll to the bottom and uncheck the "Exclude Background Colors" box and click Extract Colors again.
Diane Woods wrote: "I have no idea how to make these show up as covers, but the text should lead you to the book. "Hi, Diane! If you want to be able to post covers, here's what I do.
*First, I open up another tab and go to the book's page on GR.
*So where you write a comment, just above the comment box there's a link that says "(some html is ok)"
*Click on that and 5 bullets down, copy that html code and paste it into your comment window. I adjust width to "50" and height to "75"
*Then go to your tab where you have your book pulled up. Right click on the cover and select "copy image address."
*Come back to your comment and paste into your html code. You'll paste between the quotation marks after --> img src="paste here"
Hope this helps!
Forgot about that statement of not knowing how to make it show up. So sorry.Jessie, that's a LOT of work! There's an easier way.
Comment box usually looks like this: (note: mobile may be different)
• Click on the "add book/author" link above the text box which you're typing in for the discussion.
• Notice a search box or “look-up” opens up and at the bottom the words
add: ⦿ link 〇cover
The little blue dot is will always first default to link unless you click on cover.
• Type in the title you of the book you desire, and click "search".
• Click on the "add" button next to the option you want to include and the html for the cover will appear in your text box.
• Make sure that "cover" is chosen before you click the big “search” button, but if you forget, you can always put your cursor after the word “book” and before the colon: in the link, type in "cover" and the bookcover will appear.
These tips, and more, can be found in our GoodReads 101 folder.
Kaitlin wrote: "
[b..."I've been wanting to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for a long time!
A Hint of Frost - Paranomal Romance. Self-published author, this is the first in a series set in a clan based society where clans are based on a scientific family of spiders (some poisonous, some excel at producing silk, etc). Very interesting idea, and it has a virgin hero!
Gathering Blue - YA Dytopia. This is the second book in Lois Lowry's The Giver Quartet and my favorite of the four, I read it in high school and pieces of it stuck with me so I had to hunt it down to re-read later. I remembered more details about it than I had remembered about The Giver.
Fire - YA Fantasy. Second in the Graceling Realm, could probably be read on it's own as it takes place on the other side of the world from Graceling.
Unclaimed - Historical Romance. Another Virgin Hero! I adore Courtney Milan and this is one of my favorites. This is the 2nd in her Turner series but can definitely be read on it's own. She published a few books through Harlequin early on, but she has some very unique outlooks that didn't fit into what they wanted in the way of traditional publishing, so she's moved on to self-publishing.
Song of Scarabaeus - Sci-Fi Romance. Great world building, characters an a tame/realistic romane.
Jessie wrote: "Diane Woods wrote: "I have no idea how to make these show up as covers, but the text should lead you to the book. "Hi, Diane! If you want to be able to post covers, here's what I do.
*First, I op..."
when you go to add book and type name in you can choose title or cover at the bottom
Karsyn wrote: "Forgot about that statement of not knowing how to make it show up. So sorry.Jessie, that's a LOT of work! There's an easier way.
Comment box usually looks like this: (note: mobile may be differ..."
Kay, for real, I'm an idiot... How did I never see that before?
Today, recommend 5 books that are mainly the Olympic Ring colors ~ Blue, Black, Red, Yellow & Green. Recommend one book per color and book cover must be more than 60% that color. 
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**Day 2 Recommendations**
YES there are specific requirements to recommendations, not just any.
Random ones will be deleted.
When WOBBLE was first mentioned (Prepare to Wobble) Wobble was colored with certain colors. No one guessed the meaning of that, which was that the colors were from the Olympic Ring colors.
Today, recommend 5 books that are mainly the Olympic Ring colors ~ Blue, Black, Red, Yellow & Green. Recommend one book per color and book cover must be more than 60% that color.
You can use TinyEye Labs Color Extract to find percentages of colors. Familiarize yourself with this site, as color of cover WILL pop up somewhere within Wobble. Asking mods about the color of a cover will NOT be accepted anymore, only the use of a color extract site!
Recommendations FAQ -
Through this read-a-thon, we're going to recommend books in the hopes of putting a ton more books on our TBR! With recommendations ~
╰⊰✿ Try to recommend something not extremely popular (no Harry Potter!) We want to get new books and with extremely big series/books, people already know about them. Give us something new to want!
╰⊰✿ REMEMBER: Our group is an ALL AGES group. Please no recommendations of a mature nature. Gore and violence is ok (it's in Hunger Games after all) but nothing too over the top and no erotica please.