Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion
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Thoughts: How to organize audio vs text for books read?
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Maybe create a new exclusive shelf named "2017 Audio Books Read" that way once you listen to it you can add it to that shelf and rather than the read shelf with a completed date so it wouldn't go towards your reading challenge numbers. But you could still keep track of what you listened to this year. exclusive shelves: All members have three default shelves (read, currently-reading, and to-read), which are mutually exclusive, meaning a book can only be on one of them. Members can create as many additional shelves as they like, and books can be on as many non-exclusive shelves as you desire. This may be useful for shelves such as "reference" or "gave-up-on." It may take a few minutes for the changes to propagate if you have a lot of books on this shelf.
That's what I was thinking. I guess I'm worrying too much about it!
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I also have separate shelves for "audio" and "2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge" (and separate shelves for about a hundred other things) so I would suggest doing something like that. The data-lover inside me quakes at the thought of removing data - don't remove the date! someday you might want to know! But that's just me.
Sara Grace wrote: "Hi,I've made a personal decision to not count my audiobooks towards books read for the year. I still want to count them as read in general, but not a specific date. The reason is, I want my 2017 ..."
As long as its marked "read" it will show up on your read shelf. If you just leave out the date it won't count towards your challenges. I do the same thing with children books. I'll mark them read but leave them off my challenge (although I'm still on the fence about that decision)
I also put them in their own separate shelf for children books- it's listed under my daughters names, since I typically read those with them.
Audio books, I do add to my challenge for the year, I don't have a separate shelf for them right now, but you've got me thinking......
It wasn't an issue before for me. I just thought, dang, I am listening to a lot of audiobooks and I haven't really read as much as I used to. I wanted to make a point to read more, and I'm a goal oriented person, so seeing the challenge numbers reflect the books I've read only really helps.Nadine, I was thinking the same thing...about not having the read dates on them. I was thinking of putting it in a review, but that's not what reviews are for. I usually put progress updates, so the books do show the dates for that, just not the date finished. I also made a non-exclusive shelf called "audiobooks2017". That will at least let me know what year I listened to them, at a glance.
I have "read_2017" and "listened_2017". Some books end up in both because I will end up doing both.
I do the same! I switch between book, ebook and audiobook sometimes!
Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "Odd question."Hi Kirsten...why do you think it is odd? Because I do not wish to count my audiobooks in the GR 2017 Challenge?
Well, yes. As long as the audiobooks are unabridged, I'd count them. Also, it doesn't seem so hard to make an extra folder.
Making an extra folder isn't the only way to organize your reading. I made this discussion because I wanted to hear how others count their audiobooks and how they organize their reading. It's all personal preference. Like I said, I would like to not count my audiobooks. I tend to not concentrate well enough to get enough out of an audiobook, but I still enjoy them. So, I don't want to count them.
I know... I wasn't trying to be judgmental. It's still early for me, so maybe I didn't express myself well. Also, did you say you don't file them as "read" or something? I think that's a mistake. One of the things I do is make sure I am reviewing the right edition. For instance, I sometimes have several copies of the same book but different editions because I want to listen to a book narrated by a certain person, even though I've already read the book.
You're okay. I work in cataloging and my general mood at work is meh so it's me. :)I'm marking them read, just not with a finish date. I made a folder for the audiobooks I'm listening to this year. If I really want to see the day I listened to them, I can look at the book activity for that book.
I haven't been changing the edition of my books to audiobooks. Since I'm not adding a finish date, they aren't factored into my stats, so I'm being lazy about changing it. I make sure to get the right edition on my books I read as text. I don't review often, and never do I write formal reviews. I should though, since I get a few ARC's from working in the library.
I've made a personal decision to not count my audiobooks towards books read for the year. I still want to count them as read in general, but not a specific date. The reason is, I want my 2017 Book Challenge (75 books) to be books read - physical books or e-books.
I'm not opening a discussion on whether an audiobook is "read", I still want to count it - it's just not as important to me as text reading, since I personally have no attention span to keep up with audio. HOWEVER, I am often bored at work and need to listen to something, so I'll listen to audiobooks of books I want to re-read, non-fiction and classics books I'd never read more than a page of, or comedic/enhanced books that made more sense as audio.
So, should I remove the set date that I listened to the audio book and make a shelf for audiobooks listened to in the year? I'm a database control type person and can't figure out the best way to organize the information.