WHERE ARE YOU LOCATED AND WHERE WILL YOU BE DOING YOUR READING FOR THE READATHON? - 2017

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Tell us a little about yourself in terms of country, state and anything else you would like to share about where you will be doing your reading?

Do not be more specific than Bentley is in message 2 - example.

APRIL 8TH READATHON - READATHON ELEVEN - FIRST READATHON IN 2017!!!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Bentley here - Bentley will be checking in from NYC (METRO NEW YORK AREA) - all Eastern Standard Time in the United States of America. Hoping to get some reading and some listening of books completed.

See you there and let us know where you will be located and where you will be doing your reading for the readathon.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You can post here.

[Diana]

I will be checking in from Southwestern Ohio, USA. EST I have a few books I need to finish that I want to tackle during the Read A Thon. This is my second one this year, I did Emojiathon earlier.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

How nice - very good. Glad to have you - I have a pile myself. See you on the 8th

[Michele]

I will be checking in from cloudy Southern Calif, USA, PDT. We have a chance of sprinkles friday night to saturday morning. Late in the season.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Rainy days are great for readathons.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Very good - on the audio books you will have to look up the table on contents with pagination on line for whatever book you are listening to and make note of what chapter you are beginning to listen to and that page number and what chapter you are ending on and that page number - so that you can compute pages read. I am doing some audios myself and that is what I have to do.

We welcome you from Canada.

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

I will be joining you from Denver, Colorado (MDT). It is supposed to be a beautiful Spring day here in the 70's so I may be doing a lot of reading on my deck. I have a couple of books stacked up to read.

by Lisa See

by Will Schwalbe

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Well good for you - I hope your deck reading is happy and fruitful. Like Lisa See - I was featured in the forward of one of her editions along with a few folks I knew at the time for helping with some perspectives on Shanghai Girls I believe it was.

by Lisa See

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

I'll be reading my book(s) in Berkeley CA, hopefully on a sunny day.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

I will send pleasant thoughts (smile)

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Bentley, thank you for your comment about Lisa See. She is one of my favorite authors and I try to never miss her at the Tattered Cover Bookstore book signings.

Vicki, I'm glad that you have joined us from Oakland - the Bay Area is one of my favorite places ever!!!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Yes, she is a good writer and her background lends itself to the subject matter she chooses.

[Doris]

I'll be checking in from Kuşadası, Turkey (a resort town on the Aegean coast); Turkey has its own time zone these days, TRT (UTC +3).

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Welcome back Doris - I see you on the event notification list and I am doing set ups from that list but have not added your name yet but it will be added - do not worry. Their own timezone - how different

[Doris]

Bentley wrote: "...Their own timezone - how different
"

Yeah, well Turkey decided to stay on summer time year round, so while we still fit into EEST in the summer, in the winter, we're AST, so...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Very Strange

[Debye]

Hi! Checking from sunny/warm San Antonio. :-) Unfortunately I will be at work for some of the time, but I plan to read at least 1 book, maybe two.


I see an all night reading session in my future...

[Debye]

still working on adding author pictures correctly...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Debye - glad to see your plans. And I wish I was in sunny/warm San Antonio. Where I am it is cold, overcast, and nasty.

Make sure when you check in that the time for that check in matches your local time and that you are in the right Check In spot.

Here is how the citations should be done - we add the book cover, the word by, the author's photo when available and the author's link which is the author's name in linkable text. You did a great job with the book covers but missed the other parts. Your second book did not have a photo of the author on goodreads so we add (no photo) at the end.

by Edward Hallett Carr

by Anders Rydell (no photo)

If you need any other assistance - a good source is the Help Desk Folder and the Mechanics of the Board thread.

You are an excellent fortune teller (smile) - stock up on bottled water, and drinks - healthy snack food and make sure you have good lighting (smile)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Debye wrote: "still working on adding author pictures correctly..."

You will get it - you can practice it during the readathon - it will come eventually and then you will wonder what you thought was so hard about it.

[Debye]

Thanks for the help Bentley. I will practice!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are welcome - you will get there - we do not expect perfection right out of the gate but as long as you are trying - I would practice with your message 20 here and see if you can get yours to mirror mine. That would be a great first start.

[Skeetor]

Hello, all!

I will be checking in from Elizabeth City, North Carolina - Eastern Standard Time in the United States of America.

Thank you for setting this all up, Bentley!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are welcome Skeetor - as I am eating a slice of pizza (smile)

[Kim. E.]

I will be participating from Evansville, Indiana in the USA (Central time). Hoping to finish two books through Read-a-Thon.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

That is wonderful Kim E. - Make sure that you check in on the appropriate check in thread which matches your timeframe and look at the template and use that as a base and things will be easier.