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2018 SFFBC Owned Books Challenge!
There are tons of them, and on pretty much any conceivable topic or genre. Here are a few lists that people have made featuring GNs:
Best Graphic Novels
Best Manga
Graphic Novels by Women
500 Essential Graphic Novels
Becky wrote: "There are tons of them, and on pretty much any conceivable topic or genre. Here are a few lists that people have made featuring GNs:
Best Graphic Novels
Best Manga
Graphic Novels by Women
500..."
Well now something like them might take a little bit for me to get into to be honest with you there. But might check some more of them out and see if there is one or two that interst me. Thanks
Speaking of quick reads, I pulled my copy of Charlotte's Web off the shelf last night to read to my kids. The copy I've had since I was a little girl. In my head, "Yes, children, I'm reading this book to you solely because I want to introduce you to a classic story. A story I loved when I was a little girl. I wouldn't choose this story just because it will earn me at least 170 points for a reading challenge."
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In my head, "Yes, children, I'm reading this..."
hahahaha!
Amanda wrote: "Speaking of quick reads, I pulled my copy of Charlotte's Web off the shelf last night to read to my kids. The copy I've had since I was a little girl. In my head, "Yes, children, I'm reading this..."
Oh, that's so fantastic! I love it :)
Sarah Anne wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Speaking of quick reads, I pulled my copy of Charlotte's Web off the shelf last night to read to my kids. The copy I've had since I was a little girl. In my head, "Yes, children, I..."
LOL funny you should mention this book as I just read it to the two grandbabies last night.
John wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Speaking of quick reads, I pulled my copy of Charlotte's Web off the shelf last night to read to my kids. The copy I've had since I was a little girl. In my head..."
It is a really good book. And I have actually been meaning to read it to the kids for awhile, but the points did help me pull it off the shelf last night.
At what age do you think the kids are ready for that story? Started to look forward to reading my old favorites to my younglings
Rachel wrote: "At what age do you think the kids are ready for that story? Started to look forward to reading my old favorites to my younglings"Well, mine are toddlers and it was what I had handy at the time to read them when I put them to be. I'd say 4 or 5
John wrote: "Trike wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: "GN?."GN = Graphic Novel, aka multi-issue comic book."
Now to me they shouldn't be included it makes it easy that way."
Same with audiobooks, which aren’t reading. It is what it is.
Amanda wrote: "In my head, "Yes, children, I'm reading this book to you solely because I want to introduce you to a classic story. A story I loved when I was a little girl. I wouldn't choose this story just because it will earn me at least 170 points for a reading challenge." "
People are always so down on ulterior motives all the time.
Rachel wrote: "At what age do you think the kids are ready for that story? Started to look forward to reading my old favorites to my younglings"My kids are 5 & 7. My 5-year-old is very mothering and interested in animals, so I decided it would hold her attention a little more than some of the other chapter books I've read to them.
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ohn wrote: "Trike wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: "GN?."GN = Graphic Novel, aka multi-issue comic book."
Now to me they shouldn't be included it makes it easy that way."
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I think people who haven't read them have the wrong impression. It's not something that you can tear through just reading the words. I personally can never read more than 2-3 comics per day because it takes time to process. This means a Trade Paperback (commonly and erroneously referred to as a graphic novel, but that's pedantic... But I do have OCD so...) takes me 2-3 days to read, which is about the same as a novel.
Allison wrote: "(I don't mean to derail the conversation, just remembering to state that my initial count was 275 on my TBR. Future Allison, do a search for the word porcupine to find this post.)"You just made me laugh so hard I coughed! Not fair!
Allison wrote: "(I don't mean to derail the conversation, just remembering to state that my initial count was 275 on my TBR. Future Allison, do a search for the word porcupine to find this post.)"LOL! xD
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Sarah Anne wrote: "This means a Trade Paperback (commonly and erroneously referred to as a graphic novel, but that's pedantic... But I do have OCD so...)"Huh... I'd never heard of graphic novels being referred to as "trade paperbacks" like that. I have usually heard the term "trade paperback" being used to refer to the size or edition of a paperback novel. Interesting.
Not to say that's wrong... I've just never heard it
Amanda wrote: "Speaking of quick reads, I pulled my copy of Charlotte's Web off the shelf last night to read to my kids. The copy I've had since I was a little girl. In my head, "Yes, children, I'm reading this..."
170 points, eh. Too bad I'm reading a library copy. But I am reading it anyway, because it's a BotM for the Children's Books group. (Which you who are parents or grands should all join. [shameless plug])
By the looks of it I should get off my arse and read my Xeelee omnibus for 340 points.
Allison wrote: "...you...don't leave yourself messages for the future?"I write e-mails to myself at work constantly, and I occasionally include a "note to self" in e-mails to other people, but I’ve never posted a message to myself on a public message forum. I guess I need to step up my self-messaging game!
Also, I recommend everybody start using the word “porcupine” in random posts to make Allison’s search harder. ;)
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I write e-mails to myself at work constantly, and I occasionally include a "note to self" in e-mails to other people, but I’..."
Rude =P
This wouldn't be necessary at all if Goodreads got its way overdue facelift. Or if I trusted myself to remember things. Alas and alack. I'll have to outsmart not just me, but those wily few seeking to sabotage my BRILLIANT AND NOT AT ALL WEIRD plan. ^^
Would it be possible to create a folder to track our various challenges? Then anyone who wanted to create a thread under their name with links to the challenge and a comment number or whatever. Just a thought. I belong to another group called The Challenge Factory and that’s what they do (and how I track all my challenges in this group).
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Here are the rules.
1. All questions and updates for the group should be posted in the challenge threads. Mods will NOT be checking individual threads.
2.You can name it whatever you'd like as long as it's not graphic or rude, and contains your name in the title.
3. The name of your challenge should include whether or not you'd like to allow people to comment on your thread.
Ex. Allison's Gonna Totally Stay Focused 2018 - No Comments
or
Allison's Gonna Change Her Mind Constantly! - Comments OK
4. If anyone is breaking rules on your thread (either those you set or group rules) please message either of us and link to the issue. We'll take care of it.
5. Each member gets one thread for ALL group challenges, not one thread per challenge.
Have fun and good luck!!
Trike’s porcupine thread, comments discouraged but it’s not like I can stop you, ya mooches.
Alexa ask Siri to find my Google Of the books
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That's almost as rude as Trike!! Wow! I kind of admire your brother's chutzpah though. That's totally something my sister would do to me.
Trike wrote: "Siri ask Google where are my books"Jersey, they are taking the scenic route and got caught in a snow storm. Look for them next week.
Sarah Anne wrote: "You read one book of any kind of each format. If you read one print, one ebook, and listen to one audio over the course of the year then you get that 25 point bonus."If I understand correctly you can only get the 25 points once in the year?
Esther wrote: "If I understand correctly you can only get the 25 points once in the year? r..."Yep.
I updated the post to show how many times you can achieve the points for each criteria. 1/bk - one time in each book
1/yr - one time over the course of the year
Sarah Anne wrote: "I updated the post to show how many times you can achieve the points for each criteria. 1/bk - one time in each book
1/yr - one time over the course of the year"
That is great, thank you! :)
A question for people who actually know things about tech stuff... Is it possible to import your kindle books from amazon into a spreadsheet? I would love to get all of those owned and unread onto a spreadsheet but I have over 2000 and that's... daunting.
Sarah Anne wrote: "A question for people who actually know things about tech stuff... Is it possible to import your kindle books from amazon into a spreadsheet? I would love to get all of those owned and unread onto ..."Do you use Calibre? That's what I use to track and manage my ebooks. If they are all on your kindle, they should auto populate in Calibre when you connect your device by usb.
Is calibre free? I've never used it, is it basically an ebook management?
I have Calibre but I don't really use it. I'd have to import everything. I keep telling myself I need to.
to get your Kindle books added to the My Books page above, all you need to do is have your GoodReads and Amazon Account linked and then go to the My Books page and click on Add your Amazon books to Goodreads! View your book purchases and easily select what to rate and shelve.
and add them - I do that every time I buy a book on Amazon. And it doesn't differentiate between physical and Kindle books, as it wanted to add a Calendar and a Map that I purchased
That sounds pretty good, but I'm worried it would mess up my shelves as they are now
they just initially go to the Want to Read shelf and you can then move them
CBRetriever wrote: "they just initially go to the Want to Read shelf and you can then move them"I've spend a lot of time adding most of the ones I own to a separate shelf, so I think I'm not gonna risk it :)
DoodlePanda wrote: "Is calibre free? I've never used it, is it basically an ebook management?"It is free. It's really good software, I think. I use it mainly for categorizing and tracking what I have and which formats, as well as switching formats on unDRM'ed ebooks, but I believe that there's a whole lot more that you can do with it than what I use it for.
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Well now might have to check some of them out for myself and see if there is anything that interests me.