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Yes, Diane, that would be great. You can send me a private message if you like. Kyle has been gone so spose he doesn’t want to do it again. Were you the one that wanted to see it come back?
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Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresponds to that number on their list.
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A variant of the coast to coast roadtrip where we change continent every quarter: the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.
Jen wrote: "I am going to suggest a TBR challenge. My idea:
Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresp..."
I like this one anything to help me get rid of my TBR
Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresp..."
I like this one anything to help me get rid of my TBR
Diane wrote: "Globetrotter was not really a challenge but a selection. Kyle ran this and he put up 4 selections per month for a different country. I think he gave 2 points for a book. I have the list from 2013 f..."I remember it as just two selections.
I really like the idea of a TBR selection. If it has 24 books would it run over two years?
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No, I was thinking that with 24 possibilities you wouldn’t know which books would get picked bc not all would get selected.
Jen wrote: "I am going to suggest a TBR challenge. My idea:Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresp..."
Loving this!
Jen wrote: "I am going to suggest a TBR challenge. My idea:Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresp..."
I like Jen’s idea. I know Litsy is doing their LitsyAtoZ Challenge again this year with all classics, I’ve been playing with the idea of pulling them all from the 1001 list. I’d say I could use the same list for both, but with one I’d be trying to read them all, with the other just half. So maybe Jen’s idea would be the extra’s that just happen to be selected.
If you aren’t familiar with the Litsy Challenge, it’s pick a book from each letter of the alphabet, either title starting with or author’s last name.
I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a bunch of those around 100 pages or less out and do a mini-reads challenge and check a bunch of those off the larger list while still leaving time for the regular monthly/quarterly/and annual reads.
Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a bunch of those a..."Now, this is a good idea!
Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a bunch of those a..."If you have them all in your TBR list, you can determine original dates published and page numbers. The page numbers vary, however, depending on the edition you have saved in your tbr. I think the 1001 app will also do this, although the page counts are not necessarily accurate.
Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a ..."Yep, that’s the same trouble I have with the publication dates, Goodreads gives me the publication of my edition which since I rarely have any first editions is almost always later than the true original publication date. I wish their database had both fields, a this edition published and an originally published date. Book lovers can dream, right.
The 1001 app is ordered by publication date (though I think a couple are out of order by a year or two), and you can also sort them by length. I admit I do this.
Thank you Diane and Dree... it took me seeing this twice to realize that the 1001 list had its own app, I’ll definitely be using that in the future, it sounds much more searchable than the Goodreads lists.
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Yes! The app is easier to sort through
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The app rounds the pages off to the nears 100/50 pages so it will give you a ball park. And again there are some frank errors. After all the app was created by Arukiyomi (Arukiyomi.com) and he ended up with quite a legal hassle with the publishers over the app.He also created the spreadsheet which you can purchase at his website. It is pretty handy. Goodreads does list the original publication date along side the edition publication, if you look, its in very light greyish font.
Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a bunch of those a..."I have a spreadsheet that I got from Kyle, who may have left before you joined the group, I have added to it. It includes dates of publication, which seems pretty accurate and page length, which is not perfect, but generally better than the app, which is sometimes off by a lot. Of course, as Diane noted, page length varies by edition, sometimes considerably so. The spreadsheet is, of course, completely searchable and sortable.
Send me a PM with your email address and I can send you a copy of my current version. There is also a version on the group's cloud site, though I had trouble with that and stopped using it, so someone else would have to direct you to it.
John wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a ..."Thank you very much!
Melissa wrote: "Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be gr..."GoodReads has all that information, it is just hidden behind a 'settings' option on top of your bookshelf (if you go to your bookshelf on the web page). You can sort by publication date, edition date, page number and a lot of other things.
Paula wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short ..."That works for my own shelves, but not for the group shelf. Unless the admins can change those settings?
Sushicat wrote: "Paula wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a..."Same here, it works on my made shelves, but not the group shelves or the listopia lists, those are all locked in some way that blocks off those sortable options.
Jen wrote: "I am going to suggest a TBR challenge. My idea:Each person submits a list of 24 TBR 1001 books in numbered list. Each month we randomly select a number and participants read the book that corresp..."
Great idea!
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I’m not sure we can change that but I will take a look. We do lock the bookshelf because unlike other groups our bookshelf should not change so we don’t want anyone to be able to change the list on the bookshelf accidentally or intentionally. But I can see if we can sort them by date. Let me play around with it and see although I’m currently at a conference now so have limited internet access for next few days
Jen wrote: "Sushicat wrote: "Paula wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yello..."I can change the sorting, but not the choice of fields visible. It would be great if we could see the original publication date and the page numbers.
Sushicat wrote: "Jen wrote: "Sushicat wrote: "Paula wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Diane wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page number..."Thank you so much for trying ladies, and I’m so sorry for diverting this thread into an unintentional tangent. I really didn’t mean to monopolize it with my question.
If you’re going to change the sorting at all on the group bookshelf, I’d suggest by author or title so titles are easier to find, and yes, it’s a shame that Goodreads isn’t quite as user friendly as it could be. Oh well.
The sorting is driven by the person who views the bookshelf, not the creator of the bookshelf. If Jen changes it, only she will be able to view the changes. I realize it is a big undertaking, but you can create a list like this by saving all 1305 books to your own tbr under a specific folder. For example, I have all of the books saved to my tbr in my "1001" folder so I am able to do these searches myself through "My Books" (you can find "My Books" at the top of the screen next to the "Home" link). When I select my "1001" folder in "My Books", I can see how they currently are being sorted by looking for the heading with the triangle symbol next to it. This can easily be changed by clicking on any of the other headings. By clicking on "num pages" at the top of my list, I can sort them by length (of course this is only as accurate as the page counts of the editions I have personally saved to by list). If I want to search by publication date, I can add this to my headings by clicking on "settings", at the top of the list and selecting "date pub" from the menu. It will now appear among the headings at the top of my list of books. Clicking on "date pub" will sort them by date.
John wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I wish there was a searchable list of the 1001 list that could be reordered by date published or page numbers. The Yellow Wallpaper was a pretty short read, It’d be great to pull a ..."Thank you John, I received your email and the spreadsheet, just what I needed. Thank you so much.
And according to the list, just in case anyone else was interested in the answer after my question ran away with the thread, there are 36 on the list of 1001 books (over the different list books), that fall in at under 100 pages.
Any other challenges you would like? Please let us know.
We'll gather a list and vote on choices.
Suggestions so far:
Globetrotter
24 TBR 1001