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2017 The "All Your Book Are Belong to Us" Challenge
I'm guessing you're at 43 points thinking that you've finished off the Easy sub-category for your first bonus point.
I'm still deciding whether or not I can take this on, but I had a little time to kill this afternoon while perusing this... so I made a score sheet if anyone is interested. I used HIMS' books as a sample to make sure I did things correctly. Either we are both wrong or his math works out. ;)
Hopefully my shorthand for categories is clear enough in the drop down lists.
Anyway, here it is if anyone wants it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Edit: Updated to the public one.
Your spreadsheets always make mine look like a three year old did it. Haha.I just listed all the catrgories and put a column beside it for the book and a zero or one for the points if completed. An extra riw for each category started and an extra row for each category completed and a row for number of books. I think the math looks right.
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^Agreed. My reading spreadsheet is pretty decent, but no dropdowns. It does some fancy if-summations and stuff so all I do is enter books into my All Books list and I get nice summary data like:Titles Countries
20 4
15 4
14 4
13 4
12 6
11 6
10 6
9 7
8 8
7 9
6 11
5 13
4 17
3 25
2 45
1 107
0 88
Telling me that I've read at least four books from seventeen countries now. :)
Or things like
Region Continent Pop Countries Read
Eastern Africa AF 404.4 18 9
Western Asia AS 261.8 18 9
Northern Europe EU 102.6 10 8
South America SA 422.3 12 8
Caribbean NA 38.4 13 7
Eastern Europe EU 292.5 10 7
Southern Asia AS 1,846.8 9 7
Central America NA 175.0 8 6
Northern Africa AF 227.5 6 6
Southern Europe EU 152.1 14 6
Western Europe EU 191.3 9 6
South-Eastern Asia AS 640.6 11 5
Western Africa AF 362.8 16 5
Eastern Asia AS 1,610.8 6 4
Central Asia AS 68.3 5 3
Middle Africa AF 156.5 9 3
North America NA 360.4 2 2
Oceania OC 28.9 2 2
Melanesia OC 9.5 4 1
Micronesia OC 0.3 5 1
Polynesia OC 0.3 3 1
Southern Africa AF 63.3 5 1
So I know I've read books from 8 of the 10 countries in Northern Europe.
It's pretty magical, but it took me a couple of years of fiddling to figure out what I really wanted. I keep adding to the summary sheets. I've got a Country one a Region one and a Continent one. I've sadly only read 10 books from South American authors. I'm going to remedy that shortly. :)
Continent Pop Countries Read Total Books
North America 574 23 15 320
Europe 739 43 27 216
Asia 4,428 49 28 73
Africa 1,214 54 2 29
Oceania 39 14 5 17
South America 422 12 8 10
I've managed to put my love of reading and my love of numbers together. It's asbolute delicious madness I tell you.
My spreadsheets are not even on the same planets as yall.My spreadsheets are super simple and rely on little to no equations.
They are mostly just numbered lists.
Thank you!HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I keep adding to the summary sheets. I've got a Country one a Region one and a Continent one.
...
I've managed to put my love of reading and my love of numbers together. It's asbolute delicious madness I tell you."
My problem is letting the madness takes over; I added so much stuff to my original tracking sheet that it took way too long to do anything useful. But it could show me "instantly" way more statistics than I ever needed. I recently started fresh and have been forcing myself to use the KISS approach and am much happier with it.
^Agreed. Madness is a problem. I pared my spreadsheet down to two sheets and very little data.Books: country, author, title, pages, year read, ebook indicator
Countries: country, continent, region, population (calculated books read from the books sheet)
That's it. I now only enter a short line for each book I read in one place and I get all the fun stats I want (if I choose to write the multiple if counting.)
From those I build whatever summary sheets I want. I did one for continents and one for regions. It gives me different pictures that I like when choosing between books. I really need to hit South America a little more.
I do track some current year statistics on another sheet and made one for marking off this years challenge. I've also got a summary sheet for the challenges telling me aguely the kinds of things like pages, books, ebook breakdown, and how well I did avoiding the two countries (US, UK.) and getting to my country (CA) and the rest of the world.
Of course, I do have that map I keep updating. So yeah, I still waste a lot of time tracking things. But, but, but the map is super fun!
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya HakakianA book.
One point for 71. And so it begins.
What begins?
The single point for every book I read from now on.:P
LOL!Good, gives the rest of us a chance to catch up! :P
DoodlePanda wrote: "LOL!Good, gives the rest of us a chance to catch up! :P"
^
It looks like I can make my score sheet editable by anyone, would having separate tabs for everyone participating that you could update on your own be useful? I would also add an overview tab showing current scores and rankings. It won't take long to put together if there is any interest.
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^I'd probably fill it out. A separate tab would probably reduce errors.Interpreter of Maladies by by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Book
Alphabet - I
Miscellaneous - Pretentious List (as outlined in my personal thread)
3 points for 74.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Book
New Category: TBR
TBR: a book you've put off for years , though you know you really want to read it
Crayola: "Orange"
New Category: Miscellaneous
MISC: a book with a number in the title
Here is the updated spreadsheet.I have added tabs for everyone who said they are participating along with reported books (that way no-one should have to redo anything.) Tabs are in alphabetical order, books are at least close to reported order. To update, just go to your tab and update books/categories. The last column is for a "updated on" date but that is optional. I don't have categories for several people so there are several scores that should be higher than shown right now.
If you don't want to enter anything on the spreadsheet, just continue to update here and I can update it for you or someone else can*.
If you aren't on the list and want to add your scores, just go to the "Blank 1" or "Blank 2" tab and enter your name in Cell A1. It will automatically add you to the list. I will need to manually change the tab name so please post in here if you do that. (Although I will probably see it as I update mine too.)
*Everyone can edit all the tabs since I didn't want to ask for email addresses or ask everyone to have a Google account to update this. That's also why the tabs and most formulas are protected, since this is completely public I don't want to have to start over if something goes wrong. The formulas are the same as the previous version I shared.
Woooooow! I gotta go slowly with this but thanks!
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig.Book
Alphabet - K
Crayons: Black
Three points for 77.
Argentina (3).
Awesome Dazrin. I will endeavor to update that one as well.
Thanks!I was hoping that the graph could be shared so that it would automatically update a leaderboard (and therefore wouldn't need a manually edited post) but it looks like GR keeps a cached file and doesn't update automatically. :(
It is indeed awesome.Another three points for Roald Dahl's The Witches. Brings me to 80.
Book. Crayons - Violet. Genre - Banned.
Thank goodness for kids books and banned lists. Although I do tend to read a lot of stuff that was banned in its own country.
would this work for yellow?
That might be pushing it, but hey, what do I know.
MrsJoseph wrote: "would this work for yellow?"I vote yes. :) When you go to the book page and enlarge the cover, the yellow title feels dominant.
:-D
Old Man's War
Book
Easy
Easy - Finished category! Boom!
Crayola - Yellow
Crayola - Finished category! Boom!
This is getting a LOT harder. O_O
I need to get some reading done... I feel like I'm way behind at this point, I still haven't finished any of the categories O.o
Doesn't matter how many you finish at this point, just how many you finish the end. Actually that doesn't even matter. As long as you tell us what you read we're all good here. I anticipate maybe 6 or 7 of the categories by the end. I'm more interested in keeping my other reading goals in line as well and many of the challenge categories are really counter-productive to that (*cough *cough not reading US and UK books).@Mrs. J. That's not yellow, THIS
IS YELLOW. :PActually, this is probably just hard on the eyes.
LOLOL!I'd probably run from that book. Even at its current small size it's rather eye-offensive.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Doesn't matter how many you finish at this point, just how many you finish the end. Actually that doesn't even matter. As long as you tell us what you read we're all good here. I anticipate maybe 6..."I'll say that the ABC challenge is the worse! IDK how I managed to almost finish it last year. O_O
I've got titles penciled in for all of the alphabet. Do you want some help with options?We could do some buddy reads at some point, although I'm more of a loner on that front. Remember when we buddy read The Madness of Hallen? Haha.
Shockingly I somehow managed to finish my A-Z challenge last year! O.oAnd I'm not really that bothered how I do at the challenges, it's fun either way :)
I would still read the same books either way, so it's not like I'm stressing it too much :D
^Yeah, the alphabet challenge is a bugger. So many books and a few really ugly letters. I did one for authors a few years back. Although this year I've managed to cobble togehter a pretty good list to finish off that one while pretty much maintaining my real reading goals for countries of the world.25 books and 20 countries so far. That's good for me.
Still a lot to cover on my map. But it's certainly looking better than at the start of the year.
Well I had to hurry and finish the short book to catch up with Mrs Joseph finishing off Crayons.A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi Al-Ahdal.
Book
Crayons - Brown
Category Completed -= Crayons
4 points for 86.
Anyone else got the issue that the non-home page pages of GoodReads are missing their style sheet links so it looks like I'm back in 1994 Mosaic days?The memories are coming flooding back.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I've got titles penciled in for all of the alphabet. Do you want some help with options?We could do some buddy reads at some point, although I'm more of a loner on that front. Remember when we bu..."
I could NOT get to the end of that one. I should pick it up again...I'm such a cover whore I look at it and get all giddy.
^It could count as your COVER entry. Mwahahahahah...Sorry.
LOL!
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Anyone else got the issue that the non-home page pages of GoodReads are missing their style sheet links so it looks like I'm back in 1994 Mosaic days?The memories are coming flooding back."
Yes, I had that problem earlier today too. Seems resolved now.
So. 27. a book that takes place under the sea
Would it count if the location was thought to be under the sea? And actually is below sea level?
I wish. Ha!It's the top of a mountain amphitheater that was thought for eons to be lost under the sea. It IS below sea level but was not submerged.
(The location was close to the epicenter of a massive global explosion, earthquake and re-whatever you call fixing that problem.)
With no answer to the above, I'm going with... YES!
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