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Why would you not be able to use audiobooks for the ladder?
You build the ladder with the books you read as a team. You shelve the edition you read. You add the link of the edition you've read to the spreadsheet.
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No need to panic! :-)
You are a team. Ask one of your team members to please steal the link to your book from your shelves to add it to the spreadsheet. That's what teams are for - to help each other out.
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Can more than one team member read the same BO..."
Rejuvenation points can only be gained in this round, so within the next 2 weeks. Either all the points you have lost or up to a maximum of 175.
Yes, of course more than one team member can read the same BOM/book. And yes, it will then count for each player who has read it.
I volunteered to do the Adult Sept BOM, just because I want to, as my team has not lost any points (yet). If we never lose any points, I assume I should NOT fill in my BOM activity in the team spreadsheet?
That is, the Rejuvenation tab should only be filled in if we are "redeeming" lost BOM points?
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If we never lose any points, I assume I should NOT fill in my BOM activity in the team sp..."
the spreadsheet magic should be working so that you can fill in to your hearts content, but won't actually get the benefit unless you've taken damage.
I've been recording the Chipmunks BOM points, on the off-chance that excitement with TT planning (curse those kittens for tempting Sonia to tease them & then guess the theme...!) sends our reading awry.
I'm really sorry I have so many questions. Just one moreand I promise I won't ask anything again. I know some challenges have different rules regarding pages for audiobooks, like use the default or the first paperback edition. I looked but couldnt find any rules like that for this challenge. So for this challenge, I would use the pages from the audiobook I've read and linkef to. So the audiobook Brown Girl Dreaming, (pretending that this would be a useable book) it says it has 4 pages. So we would read say a 324 page book and a 459 page book?
Edited to add that I now realize that I cant use that particular book.
Shanna, I'm not sure but I don't think this challenge allows poetry
Well heck. Ok thanks. Didnt even realize it was poetry when I listened to it. Thought it was stories. I'm not much of a poetry reader. But knowing it can't be used, I'll still leave the question stand
I hope you still enjoyed it. I really liked it when I read it.
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Now I get what you were asking in your previous questions about using audiobooks for the ladders - you meant for linking them to the other books with regards to page count!
In that case, if you're listening to the audio version of the books, go with the page number of the default edition. If the default edition is a large print edition, then the next one on the list will be the edition you're using for page numbers.
(That is generally how we proceed in all team challenges where page counts matter.)
Ok we have a team member not check in the last 10 days and I sent a DM a little over 24 hours ago and still havent gotten a response. Is there anything else we need to do? How long should we wait? With the countdown I don't want us to be behind because of a lost player
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Nothing to stop you reaching out to readers on the "Looking for a team" thread and inviting them to join you.
Hi! I just wanted to confirm - for August BOMs participation, does the usual time limit of one month since the starting day of discussions apply? Thank you! :)
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Yep, it does!
Eldarwen wrote: "Yep, it does!"Awesome, thanks!
Is there a countdown clock for the Countdown Stage for Round 2?
I had a question about the NPR list task. I had gone online and looked at the 2018 and 2017 NPR best books list. I wound up reading a book from the 2017 list. Should I be reading a book from a list on Goodreads and does it have to be the 2018 list? And if so, would it be from the best books of 2018 Goodreads list?
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As per the above comment, you should be using the 2018 list, using that link.
What should I do if I’m reading an ARC of a book that has been published? Should I use the edition that fits the task even if it isn’t the edition I read?
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If the edition you read doesn't fit the task then you can't use the book.
Yes, there are a few, limited times when that rule is suspended (like last round's Audio narrators task) but generally that's the rule, and I didn't spot any tasks this round that might have that sort of allowance
Most ARCs have an ISBN that matches one of the published editions, no?
Quick question... For round two, task 10... books that start with letter O .... can we use books in other languages or has to be English? I speak two languages and read in both, I’m back home and I have a book that fits the task but is not in English.
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Absolutely you can!
You'll need to be sure that the edition you read starts with an O though. it won't work if you are using the English title but read it in Gibberish
The ladder instructions say "you can't use a book in the safezones before the countdown is finished". Does this mean that you have to build a separate ladder for safezone books and one for countdown books? You can't have one ladder that combines both and submit it at the end of the round?
@Jen I would like to know the answer to this as well. I've been penciling in some ladders even though we don't need them yet but if we have to separate countdown and safezone or not use countdown at all then I'll definitely have to move some stuff around.
@Jen I would like to know the answer to this as well. I've been penciling in some ladders even though we don't need them yet but if we have to separate countdown and safezone or not use countdown at all then I'll definitely have to move some stuff around.also if there is a book that is audio only how would if use it with a ladder? for example the goodreads page says 'audio 20 pages' so would i use 2 and 0? or since it is 7 hr 19 min per audible could i use 7 and 9? or just don't use it in a ladder at all?
I think in audio we should use the default edition to count page number but let's wait for a mod :)
my question was if there is no print version with a page count to use, then what do we do
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What the rules mean is that you can shuffle books into a ladder after you read them, so a ladder can be made up of a mix of books from countdown & safezone, but you can't build & read the ladder and then assign them to tasks. Does that clear it up?
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Can you take that to the ask a team thread, please Judith?
What happens if you have a book ending in "0"? obviously you can't have one starting with 0, so can we just ignore the last number? (I read an 890, for example)
I read through the questions but wanted to double check something. I see BOM says we have 1 month to finish posts from the start date. But I also see that the discussion post for Good Omens says the book started Aug 2 and will finish Aug 31 (today). Will I still be able to post my answers to questions tomorrow and insert completion links for regeneration points tomorrow?
Isn’t the task to read a book that starts with the letter O? Not the number zero?
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "Isn’t the task to read a book that starts with the letter O? Not the number zero?"One of the regeneration tasks is to link books together by page count -- Book one has 354 pages, book two has 402 pages. If a book's page count ends with 0 it won't work in the chain.
Can it still go on the end of a chain though?
Gotcha. I haven’t even looked at the regeneration stuff.
yeah i figured any page counts ending in 1 or 0 would be able to go at the end of the chain but obviously not before
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ROUND 2
COUNTDOWN STAGE - WE ARE ALMOST AT ZERO!
Remember....
We start off by shouting "The Floor is Lava! In 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0!"
By the time the counter is 0, the floor is Lava and if your team hasn't read the required books, [that is, the 10 books in the countdown stage], your team will be stuck in the lava (i.e. lose points).
ZERO for round 2 is Wednesday 4th September, 9pm AEST for ALL teams. Countdown is here
I want to make sure I understand correctly so my team can calculate our plan. For the 50 bonus points if you complete safe zone 1 (from challenge 1) in challenge two, do you also get the 30 points per letter or just the extra 50 points? Thank you :)
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The ARC edition works for the task but it just doesn’t have as many pages as the edition that is over 400 pages
Cat wrote: "huh? You get 50 bonus points for completing round 2's safezone 1. Not sure where round 1 comes into it....??"I was confused because the wording is “Safezone Group 1 : Complete in round 2 and receive 50 bonus points!". Also someone had asked if they had completed group 1 in round 1 that they couldn’t receive the 50 bonus points and this was confirmed. So I wanted to make sure which word we needed to be spelling.
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Each round is going to have a countdown plus three safezone groups. Points (except regen points) apply to the Round they are read for.
Cat wrote: "they wouldn't get the bonus for R1 because the bonus applies to R2. If you complete SZ1 in Round 2 you will get the bonus points, regardless of your choices in Round 1: it's a whole different floor..."That makes so much more sense, thank you!
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