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Iain's BR Tracker -- The Rebel Spreadsheets of the Free-Realms
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Hard to believe this is me slowing down... others can tell you, I was doing 20-25 BRs a month for awhile there... sometimes closer to 30
That's cause you are bonkers. =D I'll read a bunch but I don't see myself doing more than 10 BR's a month. Between here, SF, S&L & GGG.
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😈😝Anni..........
Shall I? I'll wait for you permission bcuz I guess/know 😂 you already thought of this particular one.
Zaara wrote: "😈😝Anni..........
Shall I? I'll wait for you permission bcuz I guess/know 😂 you already thought of this particular one."
Hahaha, go for it Zaara! 😂
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Humanitarian Spreadsheet Commonwealth? LOL - Another mouthful.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tada... take that Virginie..."Next year, when we'll finally have our internet connection (hopefully!) I'll join you guys with the spreadsheet madness! 😂 The app don't let me do all the things I want to da...
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I basically picked words to be as opposite as possible from Virginie Evil Spreadsheet Empire... at least this time I picked the title, instead of misunderstanding Zaara's comments... the Knights Garter (no apostrophe) is a real British Knighthood... and source of Anni's Sir
You could go with: The Blessed Spreadsheets of Truth
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The Divine Spreadsheets of Truth
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Rebel Spreadsheets of the Free-Realms
Hahahha =D
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The Blessed Spreadsheets of Truth
or
The Divine Spreadsheets of Truth
or
Rebel Spreadsheets of the Free-Realms
Hahahha =D"
I think I'll go with the last one, since I told Virginie we were a Resistance over in her thread...
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Added a book link
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tada... take that Virginie..."Hahaha!
I added a book link too :)
There are evil socks. So are you gonna go with Supreme Halos? Hat or Crown related title? =D
You could also lead the rebelious Undies, Iain 😂
Sir Anni wrote: "You could also lead the rebelious Undies, Iain 😂"😂 😂 😂
That would be a very cool tracker name!
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EDIT: I honestly had no idea of all the options I would have, and how perfect this one would be ;)
Rebellious undies is going commando. DUHWhich also fits in the whole rebellion theme. Hahahahaha
Soo wrote: "Rebellious undies is going commando. DUHWhich also fits in the whole rebellion theme. Hahahahaha"
😂😂😂 when I saw the booklink. The book change a name game...virally spread...
A rebellious underwear themed tracker is a great idea, Soo.
*poke* Are you updating GR with all of the books you are reading/re-reading? Cause there's no way I'm reading more than you. =D
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm a few months behind... according to the spreadsheet, I've read 331 books with about 125k pages... so you have read more than me, but not by much... your stats page says 379 books with 135k pages"*quietly stalks in to wonder how this is even possible*
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I listen to books at work for 6hrs a day, and go home and listen some more usually, and I do it all at 1.5x to 2x speed, so I manage a 300-400 page book most days, some days I manage quite a bit more, some days I don't manage much at all...
Soo power reads/skims in a variety of genres, and can read and listen to audiobooks at the same time if the mood strikes... I think she said it works best if they're drastically different genres of books...
I only power read/skim re-reads and books that I don't like. =DMy count is off by probably 24-26 because I actually listened & read some of the books several times before marking it as done. I figure the balance to that are the shorts like Bookburners episodes that count as a book but aren't a full novel.
Listening & reading at the same time - It works best if they're different story types. Both could be fantasy but it has to have a different narrative voice. Like one is all about characters and the other is totally action oriented. One is political and the other is more of a romance. Though, I'm on hiatus from my read/listen-athon since I have to let my eyes rest.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Bea wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm a few months behind... according to the spreadsheet, I've read 331 books with about 125k pages... so you have read more than me, but not by much... your stats ..."Plus, let's not forget that you are a Timelord!
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Just need to exit the timestream for a couple weeks and catch up... visit the Library of Alexandria... Timelord Things
Soo wrote: "I only power read/skim re-reads and books that I don't like. =DMy count is off by probably 24-26 because I actually listened & read some of the books several times before marking it as done. I fig..."
That's really impressive! I'm just wondering, doesn't reading two books at the same time influence the atmosphere? Or do you stop reading one of the books during important and/or atmospheric scenes?
Timelord Iain wrote: "Bea wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm a few months behind... according to the spreadsheet, I've read 331 books with about 125k pages... so you have read more than me, but not by much... your stats ..."
That makes sense, audiobooks during work certainly help to be able to read a lot. I can't do that, listening to audiobooks while studying isn't really possible 😅
Nah. The stories are different enough that there haven't been any clashes. The books that I want to pay more attention to due to complexity or engagement are ones I would read by itself. Not in the dual manner.
Can you explain the Team Competition? Scoring? Any book read counts right? I tried to find a single place that talks about this and there really isn't one. The answers are spread and I don't want to go digging for answers. I've done a few BR's in this group and thus far BR's are not that great for people who read faster. Sometimes I get more conversations out of a status message update than in the BR threads. It's like people read the book around the scheduled time but they don't really talk about it.
I read enough that I would be a decent team participant but I'm not interested if I have to bind up my reading with a bunch of prepped plans that don't work for whatever book reading mode I'm in at the time.
Soo wrote: "Can you explain the Team Competition? Scoring? Any book read counts right? I tried to find a single place that talks about this and there really isn't one. The answers are spread and I don't want t..."You might be interested in fast/weekly-BR then :)
I think you already know about the romance oriented Naughty-Book-Club in this group. Kari and I are planning to read The Twenty Sided Sorceress and Darkest London from January 2019 onward. Maybe you're interested in this?
Otherwise, I think I'll be setting up various 'fast' series-read in 2019. Something like a trilgoy within a month buddy-read thingy. If you're interested, I'll be sure to tell you every time I schedule one :)
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Teams are then balanced so they're competitive based on previous reading habits...
BR discussions definitely vary... some books just don't have the same level of discussion/theorybuilding as others... and sometimes, being a fast reader hurts discussion, because your questions are answered before you can even voice them...
Me and Manju had a great time discussing The Heart's Invisible Furies, with it's 10 parts, each jumping ahead 7 years... but me and Choko don't tend to say much about each individual Kurtherian Gambit book, which are short and action-packed, with little feeling of risk to the characters...
The group has definitely changed in the past year, to fit the varying reading styles of the members... when the competition started, pretty much every BR was monthly, with a few exceptions like Sookie Stackhouse and Legend of Drizzt trying bi-weekly or trilogy-clumping... now we have series binge threads, off-genre instant BRs, etc... Julia was also in the top 5 for points last year, without doing a single BR, based on pagecount alone (she's 11, I think, Rob's daughter, and reads tons of YA books, with the occasional adult book)
I knew I could count on ya! =)That's more of an explanation that I wanted. I signed up for next year. I'm going to take it easy on reading so leaving my goal for 200. I spent a lot of time reading between 2017-2018. I need to spend time on new activities on 2019 or I'll get bored. I figure 200 will be no biggie and I'm going to ditch books I don't like faster than I do now.
Soo wrote: "I knew I could count on ya! =)That's more of an explanation that I wanted. I signed up for next year. I'm going to take it easy on reading so leaving my goal for 200. I spent a lot of time readin..."
200 *cough* 500 *cough* sounds like a reasonable goal for you!
200 is doable even if I'm busy with a little planning & dedication. I can still have lots of time to do other things. More than that makes reading a priority, which is what I did this year. Next year, I'm going to take up new projects. Gotta keep my life lively!
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That's more of an explanation that I wanted. I signed up for next year. I'm going to take it easy on reading so leaving my goal for 200. I spent a lot of..."
Soo wrote: "200 is doable even if I'm busy with a little planning & dedication. I can still have lots of time to do other things. More than that makes reading a priority, which is what I did this year. Next ye..."
Soo lives the life some people dream of :)
She wants to get back into dancing, she does it... she wants to start road tripping for 6 months, she does it :)
She wants to do something, she jumps in with both feet... the same when she goes into reading mode and reads 400 books...
I just kind of plod along, at the same pace, year-in, year-out...
Time for ya to be adventurous too, Iain! Only one life to live. =)Eh, my roadtrip was more like under 4 months. Had to cut it down due to life but it was definitely interesting!
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Eh, my roadtrip was more like under 4 months. Had to cut it down due to life but it was definitely interesting!"
I just remember you mentioning it in the the other group awhile ago, not the details :)
You keep mentioning Competition Points. I thought it's a total of what people read between January to October? Or are there mini-goals that need to be met? It's stuff like that isn't written about in one place.
Like, why would it matter if we read the Mercy book before the end of March?
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It's stuff like that isn't written abou..."
It's all in the Year 1 Rules thread, and the Year 2 thread discusses the changes...
Basically, someone reads a 400 page book, and it's worth 4 points... if it's a graphic novel it's only worth 25%, so 1 point... next year Reading a paperback/ebook/etc is worth 125% or 133%, I forget, so it's worth 5 points, or a little over...
If you start a Buddy Read with the group (within 7 days early and 14 days late) you earn 25% bonus point (this is less than last year)... +1 point
If you use the book to progress a challenge being run in the group (A-Z, Bingo, Incomplete Series, Overflowing Bookshelf, Book Cover, etc), you get 10% bonus points (0.4)
Add that all together:
Audiobook = 4 + 1 + 0.4 = 5.4 points
Kindle = 5 + 1.25 + 0.5 = 6.75 points
Graphic Novel = 1 + 0.25 + 0.1 = 1.35 points
Year 1, I read 125,000 pages for 1250 point... Buddy Reads gave 50% bonus points, and Challenges gave 25%... I had a max potential of 2187.5 points... I managed 2005 points, because everything was a challenge credit, and 80-90% of my books were Buddy Reads until near the end...
Year 2, that will be a potential for 1687.5 points, and people who don't read audiobooks like I do will have the same potential with only 100,000 pages read...
All the mathiness isn't too important, because we simplified it by creating a spreadsheet everybody can use... so much easier than the original plan... all you need to do, is read books, then add them to your spreadsheet tab, answer a couple yes/no questions with Y/N, and the spreadsheet does the math for you, and adds the team scores together into 4 team totals... and there's no prize, it's all for fun...
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Year 2 updates: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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I knew it would get that reaction, especially with the tail bow... but ever since Zaara pointed out that Eeyawn is basically pronounced Iain, I knew it was meant to be :)
Yes, so cute! :) I thought you would keep your Santa a little longer...
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I'm not the biggest holiday celebrator... couldn't help myself :)
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