2018 SFFBC Owned Books Challenge!

[CBRetriever]

the othe way is to just search for them on GoodReads and then add them to your shelves one by one

[DoodlePanda]

Well that's what I've done so far :)
If I knew I could have done it automatically I would have of course, but it's done now

[Trike]

Calibre is both free and awesome.

[Esther]

Sarah Anne wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: ""read with a cat/dog on your lap" - does this count once per book?"

Once per book, yep. The tea/coffee one is also once per book."

Can we include wine and G&T?

[Esther]

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"

Thanks

[Sarah]

Esther wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: ""read with a cat/dog on your lap" - does this count once per book?"

Once per book, yep. The tea/coffee one is also once per book."

Can we include wine and G&T?"

Nope, were embracing the cliche with this one.

[Trike]

Esther wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: ""read with a cat/dog on your lap" - does this count once per book?"

Once per book, yep. The tea/coffee one is also once per book."

Can we include wine and G&T?"

You put gin & tonic in your wine?

All right, everyone to Esther’s house; time for an intervention.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Trike wrote: "Esther wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: ""read with a cat/dog on your lap" - does this count once per book?"

Once per book, yep. The tea/coffee one is also once per book."

Can we inc..."

Yes! Everyone to Esther's for cocktails I mean...what Trike said.

To keep this book related, I just saw a drink inspired by The Magicians that was like a regular (ie not frozen) blood orange margarita with a Malbec float.

WHY!!!

[DoodlePanda]

I'm not sure if this has been answered, but what is the minimum page limit?

[Sarah]

There isn't one.

[Trike]

Allison wrote: "To keep this book related, I just saw a drink inspired by The Magicians that was like a regular (ie not frozen) blood orange margarita with a Malbec float.

WHY!!! ."

I had no idea what any of that meant, so I looked it up. Sounds even more horrible than a turducken.

[DoodlePanda]

Sarah Anne wrote: "There isn't one."

Oh ok, so I can use a 15 page short story? I have quite a few shorter reads on my Kindle. I feel like that would be cheating though?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

DoodlePanda wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "There isn't one."

Oh ok, so I can use a 15 page short story? I have quite a few shorter reads on my Kindle. I feel like that would be cheating though?"

Nope! The various multipliers should keep that from providing too great an advantage. Have at thee, short stories!

[Sarah]

Go for it :)

[DoodlePanda]

Sweet :D

[CBRetriever]

DoodlePanda wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "There isn't one."

Oh ok, so I can use a 15 page short story? I have quite a few shorter reads on my Kindle. I feel like that would be cheating though?"

the length matters a bit in that you will get no length points for them, but a 300+ page book can gain a lot of points

300 pages/10 hours - 15 points
500 pages/17 hours - 75 points
750 pages/25 hours - 150 points
1000 pages/33 hours - 300 points

I have quite a few in my list for the 150 & 300 point page counts and a lot of 75 point books. I also have a lot of shorter no point books of less than 300 pages, so i won't gain as much for them. I will reduce my pile faster, so it kinda evens out after a while

[Esther]

I have included short stories because I want to get them read and I feel missing out on page count points will even things up.

[Anna]

I haven't double checked that 54 is the exact number of unread physical books I still have, but I made a tentative plan of reading 24 of them, and the other 30 are leaving the house unread. Of the 24, the majority I'll read in a different edition, because so many are translated editions. There are very few of those 24 that I actually want to read, so it's possible even more will have to go.

[Beth]

Thanks for adding the (1/yr) and (1/bk) information in the first post, Sarah Anne. The "total owned books read" was causing some minor confusion for me, and now it's all cleared up.

[Kristin B.]

It's already not looking good for me for the 500 bonus points. I started the year at 285 on my TBR shelf. I've read two books and am working on a third. My TBR is 289...

(I know some folks are using their count of actual owned books for this number, but I have so many ebooks that I've gotten over the years that I don't even want to imagine trying to keep track of all of them. So I'm just using the number of books that I have listed as want to read.)

[DoodlePanda]

I spent a long time adding the unread books I own on my Kindle to a separate shelf as I had no clue how many there were. It's made it a lot easier for me to choose what to read next, and it makes it easter when I do reading challeges that are focused on the cover :)
It took ages though, it turns out I have over 500 unread Kindle books...

[Melanie, the neutral party]

DoodlePanda wrote: "I spent a long time adding the unread books I own on my Kindle to a separate shelf as I had no clue how many there were. It's made it a lot easier for me to choose what to read next, and it makes i..."

I did the same thing. It does help in that moment of indecision between books. I'm strating a GoodReads shelf for the same purpose as I have books in ither formats, but It might take me the whole year to finish it. No bonus points for me.

Hey great and powerful mods,
We should get points just for knowing how many books we own. Yes?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Melanie wrote: "DoodlePanda wrote: "I spent a long time adding the unread books I own on my Kindle to a separate shelf as I had no clue how many there were. It's made it a lot easier for me to choose what to read ..."

You do, in that if your TBR shrinks you get 500 points! Gotta know where you're starting to see where you end ;-D

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Another hilarious side effect of this challenge-- The ads on my GR right now are imploring me to add a book that seems kind of interesting to my TBR and I'm like "WHO SENT YOU! Saboteur!"

[Kristin B.]

DoodlePanda wrote: "I spent a long time adding the unread books I own on my Kindle to a separate shelf as I had no clue how many there were. It's made it a lot easier for me to choose what to read next, and it makes i..."

I have 2,009 items in my kindle library according to my Amazon account. I don't even want to think about trying to sort through that. lol. I had a problem with downloading every Fantasy freebie when I first got my Kindle.

Allison wrote: "Another hilarious side effect of this challenge-- The ads on my GR right now are imploring me to add a book that seems kind of interesting to my TBR and I'm like "WHO SENT YOU! Saboteur!"

Same!

[Anna]

Kristin B. wrote: "I had a problem with downloading every Fantasy freebie when I first got my Kindle. "

I also did this, anything that said fantasy or scifi and was free, I downloaded. I went through everything last year and deleted most of them. I did read some of the freebies, but not many of them were worth it. I've since downloaded more freebies, but now I look at the blurbs first.

[Sarah]

I have 2300 and I'm also not sure what to do. I was hoping I could neatly import into a spreadsheet but it appears not.

[Becky]

What about just using a subset of ebooks... Like, say, sorting by date purchased or date added and using 50 of them for the challenge.

If you read 12 of the 50 but add 4, you still come out ahead - without having to track/catalogue hundreds of intangible files.

[Trike]

DoodlePanda wrote: "it turns out I have over 500 unread Kindle books... ."

Kristin B. wrote: "I have 2,009 items in my kindle library"

Sarah Anne wrote: "I have 2300"


You lot are making me feel better about my book addiction, as I don’t have nearly as many. Thank you all.

[Kristin B.]

Trike wrote: "You lot are making me feel better about my book addiction, as I don’t have nearly as many. Thank you all..."

Happy to be of service! ;)

[Beth]

I've just edited message 86 with my first owned book read, but the book is 468 pages - am I supposed to round up or down? (300 pages, for 15 points, or 500 pages, for 75?)

Thanks!

[CBRetriever]

it's between 300 and 500, so i would presume it's 15 points. That's what I'm using.

[Sarah]

Yes, the number is supposed to be a minimum.

[Beth]

Thanks!

[Cornerofmadness]

Just to be sure, we can count any books we own, not just the SF/F/UF ones, right?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Cornerofmadness wrote: "Just to be sure, we can count any books we own, not just the SF/F/UF ones, right?"

Yep!

[Cornerofmadness]

Allison wrote: "Cornerofmadness wrote: "Just to be sure, we can count any books we own, not just the SF/F/UF ones, right?"

Yep!"

Thanks

[Sarah]

I got 40 points for Twelve Days. I think I should have given a 200 point bonus for reading books that totally suck.

[CBRetriever]

That would be nice - I don't have high hopes for some of the books on my TBR (they came as part of a Humble Bundle). I'm hoping to finish by bedtime reading by the end of the year:

William Styron, The Collected Novels: Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice

I didn't care for the first one, the second one is going slow and I have hopes for the last two (I bought it for The Confessions of Nat Turner. The collections was marked down to $2.99 so I bought the whole thing. It should net me 325 points if I finish it and I'm about 26% through it over 3-4 months, so I might not make it.

[DoodlePanda]

I'm kinda glad you didn't, as that would have tempted me to finish really bad reads, and I'm now at a place where I have realized that life is too short for that :)

[DoodlePanda]

Saying that, I just finished a really bad one, so who am I kidding :P

[Sarah]

I rarely do either. I just kept thinking it would get interesting. Plus I paid $12.99 for it! I never pay more than $10 for a book.

I did think about giving points for star ratings but i thought that might influence ratings.

[CBRetriever]

Sarah Anne wrote: "I did think about giving points for star ratings but i thought that might influence ratings."

No, please no

Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, and Propaganda Kept Cannabis Illegal = 4.5 star
Dhalgren = 3.5

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I have to pick a Clive Cussler book to read. I'm not excited. But I have basically all of them pre-2012, thanks to a family member.

I would also like points for reading books in other languages. I think that's the only way I'm going to finish Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I en francais.

[Sarah]

I'm thinking the years owned points should have been a per year thing. Like 15 points per year owned. I'm annoyed by ones I've owned two years.

[Sarah]

Finished Horseman, Pass By - 50 points (1 year, group read, turned into a movie, cat in lap)

It's also a TBR Cleanup book.

[CBRetriever]

Sarah Anne wrote: "I'm thinking the years owned points should have been a per year thing. Like 15 points per year owned. I'm annoyed by ones I've owned two years."

I'd love that for the books I purchased prior to 1985......

480 points instead of 150

[Sarah]

Luckily we can learn from this year and rewrite it next year.

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "Sarah Anne wrote: "I did think about giving points for star ratings but i thought that might influence ratings."

No, please no

[book:Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, and..."

After reading one of Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy books, I would suggest fact checking before believing.

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "I have to pick a Clive Cussler book to read. I'm not excited. But I have basically all of them pre-2012, thanks to a family member.

I would also like points for reading books in other languages. I..."

If you 'have' to read a Clive Cussler book, my suggestion would be Treasure

It is a little different than most of his others and I found it enjoyable. Might not mean you do, but it is just a suggestion.