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Ashley wrote: "The 2017 items are all jumbled around different places. I would suggest, as I have seen in other reading challenges, that each year gets its own category, then subfolders for the items related to that year (the challenge list, task lists, weekly check ins, etc).b..."If you know how to create subfolders please feel free to clue me in :) What you are suggesting makes a lot of sense, but I don't see any option to do so. I reorganized the folders a couple days ago to group all the 2017 folders close to the top, and mostly all together.
Hey ppl! Thanks all (and especially the mods) for making this group such a good place to be.Obviously the weekly checkins and the prompt-by-prompt topics work very well. One thing I was wondering about was the "post your reading lists" thread. Should it be one single thread, or should we each have one thread? The initial post of that thread would be our reading list; comments would be euther our own comments abut progress or other people questions or remarks. That would make it easier to have conversations about other readers' choices; currently these conversations mostly happen in the weekly check-in threads - and, as it's been mentioned before, the lack of sub-threads in Goodread's discussion groups doesn't encourage those exchanges.
I don't know, it might actually be a terrible idea... What do you guys think of that?
Megan wrote: "You just have to remember to add the completed books to the shelf when you're done so it updates :)"That is not actually necessary. You can plan ahead and add those books to the shelf and the challenge will only count those that are finished between the dates specified. I have a shelf that includes books I have read earlier, have read this year and a lot of books I may not ever read. The challenge can keep count accurately.
Chinook wrote: "You can have your own challenge plus as many group challenges as you want (though it's one per group)."
I don't know if there is a limit for group challenges but my group has three, though only two latest ones are visible on the home page.
As a group moderator I can also tell that they probably couldn't make updating the bookshelf anymore difficult than it already is even if they tried.
What comes to listopias, at least all the librarians can remove books, not sure about whether all members can, I doubt it.
About those two lists, I think it's better that there is also a shorter one but when it comes to the lists and prompts, I would prefer that they were handled as one.
Tytti wrote: "Megan wrote: "You just have to remember to add the completed books to the shelf when you're done so it updates :)"That is not actually necessary. You can plan ahead and add those books to the she..."
OH! I didn't know that. That makes the feature even cooler! Haha
Tanelle wrote: "I love the Thursday checkins but sometimes I don't feel connected as a community. I would encourage some form of more community building and interaction between members. Not sure how you would acco..."I completely agree with this, and I was looking for a way to express the same thing. I like that this group is so active, but in a way we don't really talk *to* each other with the way things are set up. The Weekly Check-Ins are great for this, although I don't personally participate in these very often because I'm generally reading for multiple challenges and rarely have something for this challenge each week.
I think part of the problem is the threads themselves don't really leave much room to discuss specific books, and instead end up being just a list of "I read X book" and maybe a little bit about what they think. On the other hand, I participate in another challenge group that has threads open for specific books, and sometimes that's a bit too much too, so I'm not really sure what to suggest.
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... I completely agree with this, and I was looking for a way to express the same thing. I like that this group is so active, but in a way we don't really talk *to* each other with the way things are set up. ..."
I agree, it would be nice if we were more connected as people. But I don't think there is anything about the way this GR group is structured that is preventing it - we have a General Gabbery post, and we can all start new posts when we want to, but ... I think maybe there are just SO MANY people here that it's difficult to make a personal connection.
Maybe the buddy read is a good idea. I've never done a buddy read, and to be honest I get stressed out just thinking about it (you mean I have to read a specific book at a specific time???) which is silly of course, but there ya go. It would be something we could all initiate - maybe a big Buddy Read folder, with a pinned top post where we can all say "hey! who wants to do a buddy read on this book?" and then we can all make individual posts within that folder for each buddy reading group. I don't know. Is that how it's done?
Nadine - yes, that's how I've seen buddy reads work. I've definitely noticed some overlapping of people reading the same books at the same time just by serendipity when reading the weekly updates, so it might not take much planning.
This is my first year in the challenge, and although I don't review much or comment, I get a lot of use out of the prompts from everyone else! Also I'm reading a bigger variety of books because of Goodreads.
Sara wrote: "Ashley wrote: "The 2017 items are all jumbled around different places. I would suggest, as I have seen in other reading challenges, that each year gets its own category, then subfolders for the ite..."My apologies, Sara - I just looked at your reorganization of the folders and it looks great! This was pretty much what I was suggesting; obviously I should've looked at the folders once more before putting up my comment!
I was thinking that one other way to increase communication amongst members might be to do the group reads bimonthly? We have Pitney of prompts and maybe then more people would participate, with more options? I'm sure most wouldn't do all 24, but maybe people would do more?
I think we should have two rounds of voting for the monthly reads, especially when there is around 5 or six books to choose from. Sometimes at the end of the vote, and I'm sure others have experienced this, I'll see that the book I voted for was number 6, but maybe my second choice was number two. If we did a blind round of voting, like normal, then picked the top three from those and did an open vote where the results are shown, we could say, "Okay, my book didn't make it, but out of these three I definitely want to read this one." I think that way, the people who voted for books 4, 5, & 6 still get a say in what they most want to read. It will change the voting, making it very spread out, and then more collective when there is only 3 options.
I really like the challenge prompt threads maybe next year the number of the prompt could be added to the title of the thread.I'm down to my last 3 prompts between the regular and advanced I have two books picked out but I was hoping to get ideas for
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title. I kept scrolling past this one on the thread list since most of the topics all start out the same "A book"
That is a great note, I think it would definitely help!
Jillian, that's a great idea! I will try to remember to do that when setting up next years threads.
love the suggestions, the entire list of prompts that helped me to choose the books to read. difficult is the language, I'm portuguese and have to translate everything in discussions and so on, but I'm exercising english!
My biggest "complaint", I suppose, is that the 2017 items are all jumbled around different places. I would suggest, as I have seen in other reading challenges, that each year gets its own category, then subfolders for the items related to that year (the challenge list, task lists, weekly check ins, etc). That's my two cents, anyway :)