Questions? Start Here! [Links and FAQs]

[Jkmays]

Jackie wrote: "Jkmays wrote: "I am trying to participate in the poll and I do not know where to find this. I know...I am tech-challenged. hahaha

please enter the URL/address of your Goodreads profile page.

Whe..."
Thanks. My first vote completed!

[Suzanne]

It looks like someone called LiamKennedy is spamming many threads in this group. I blocked him from posting further on my thread. I wish there was a way to delete his posts. Can we please revoke his membership to the group?

[Bryony]

Thanks for letting us know Suzanne. I’ve deleted all his posts and he’s been banned from the group and reported to Goodreads.

[Suzanne]

Thanks so much!

[Lizzy]

I can’t seem to find the link to the poll results... where should I look? Thank you.
Excited for this new year of polling!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The results from the pre-poll were published in the announcements thread. We will start creating separate threads for suggestions, voting, and results beginning with our regular polls tomorrow!

[Sarah]

Hi, I just joined this group even though we are half way through the year I would still like to participate. Can I use books I have read this year in past months or just the ones from now on.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Welcome! You can absolutely count the books you've already read this year. It's your challenge and we are very flexible about what is allowed.

[viemag]

Hi: I have a question: The prompt that states Read a book related to the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards, Is that winners only or can it also be books that were nominated?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

It can be nominated books as well!

[Kim]

How does one volunteer to be a moderator?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We will post on the announcement threads when we have an opening! Thanks for your interest! :)

[Sarah]

Is there Listopias for 2020? I found the 2021 but I dont see any for this year. Am I just missing it?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Sarah, I think we deleted the thread when the weekly threads for each prompt came out. Each weekly thread has a link to that prompt's listopia, so you can find them there!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[Sarah]

Thank you!

[Pam]

How do you add an edition that is not in GR? I have a book with 58 pages of editions but not the one I own! I want to use it for a cover prompt. Thank you!

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

You'll need to ask the GR Librarians group to add it to the database.

[Marie (UK)]

I am looking at the 2021 list. I cannot find a link to week 11 - the egyptian museum? It seems like a fairly wide category I wanted to steer clear of something egyptian or with pyramids . On the websit for the museum there is a picture of a staircase could it be something like a staircase on the cover of your book

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

There’s a listopia for that week but not a weekly topic just yet: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I think a staircase would be a broad interpretation (a “Keep it Simple” if you follow that approach). But it’s your challenge so totally up to you :)

[Marie (UK)]

Laura wrote: "There’s a listopia for that week but not a weekly topic just yet: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I think a staircase would be a broad int..."

thanks

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I've just posted the weekly thread for you, Marie!

[Marie (UK)]

Emily wrote: "I've just posted the weekly thread for you, Marie!"

thank you Emily I love how i can get a charge on planning ahead

[Rachel]

How do people handle books that they start in Nov or Dec and don't finish until after the new year? (I know, ideally I'd finish a book a week, but I read several at once and currently several long ones and I'm not going to finish them all by Dec 31.)

I'm thinking anything begun in Dec I could count to either, but begun in Nov I have to count for this year. Just wondering if other ppl have this issue and what you do.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I count books by completion date, no matter when I started it. I typically finish all books by New Years Eve (just out of OCD), but I'm reading Harry Potter chapter by chapter with a podcast and those typically carry across years. I just put it in whichever year and month I finish it.

[Caitlin]

Hello! I'm new for 2021 and starting my research now - where would I find the prompts that didn't make the final list (prompt 7?)

[viemag]

HI! Can someone refresh my memory? What can we do if we don't want to read a particular prompt?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Caitlin, if you go to that week's Weekly Thread, you can find a link to all the prompts that didn't make it in on there.

viemag, you can use a Wild Card and replace one prompt with a book of your choosing.

[Janet]

How do I do this for 2021. This would be my first year. Is the place to put our plan and link to the spreadsheet available? Looking forward to this as I do the Popsugar Reading Challenge as well.
Thank you, Janet

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Hi Janet!

You can post your 2021 Plan here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

The community spreadsheet will have the 2021 tabs go live a couple days before 2021 begins! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Betty]

It’s been a few years since I’ve done a challenge, but I’m ready to try again in 2021. How do I copy and paste with my iPad? I’m trying to copy the prompts list...

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Select all the text you want to copy by swiping over it, you should then have some options show up next to your selected text. Hit copy. Then go to wherever you want to paste it, tap in the comment box or on the word document or what have you, then hit paste.

[Betty]

Jackie wrote: "Select all the text you want to copy by swiping over it, you should then have some options show up next to your selected text. Hit copy. Then go to wherever you want to paste it, tap in the comment..."

That’s not working in the app. It won’t let me highlight. Oh, well, I just discovered I can do it if I go through the browser, so I’ll do that. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Thank you.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Oh yeah the GR app is not great. 3/4 of things you can do in a browser will not work in the app.

[NancyJ]

I saw descriptions for KIS and BIO (Bring it on), however I didn't notice these referenced on the results pages so far (I just started looking). Do these matter for anything? If so, is there a certain way to record them?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

No, the KIS and BIO is just for you to up the challenge (or make the challenge easier) for yourself. Some members have a hard time wrapping their head around a prompt, so the KIS and BIO list is there to help you have a different way of looking at the prompt. You don't get bonus points or anything for them... they are just there to help you see the prompts in a different light.

[NancyJ]

OK thanks. The suggestions are really helpful and I can tell a lot of work went into them. I like the challenge of the BIO ideas. I already marked some of the items on my worksheet with little stars just in case. I also like the flexibility of the KIS ideas.

[Chafic]

Who would you say was the founder/creator of the original Around The Year in 52 Books challenge?

I was thinking of being overly ambitious next year and start a podcast with weekly episodes with each week/episode dedicated to a prompt - will have book discussions/what we read/what other good suggestions can work and have different bookish people (bookstagrammers or ATY52 mods? Maybe?) come on board and share what they read for the week?

Just wanted to check before I get ahead of myself if it was alright with the mods if I go ahead with this?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm not sure who created the group (I joined two or three years into the group being created), but as a mod, I think that would be really fun, and I say go for it!

[Jen]

When I look at the little message I see right when I enter the group that lists my 2020 challenges (It has my profile photo and says "Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge" and then "You have read __ books out of 52" "You are X books behind". it says that I have read 42 books. And when you click on it to see my progress, there are 42 book covers, just like it says.
However, when I go to the shelf I created to track my progress (and it is the shelf connected to this challenge - I double-checked), it says that I have read 45 books. And there are 45 on the shelf.
If I go to the 2020 plan that I made myself, checking off each one as I did it, I have 9 left to read, meaning that I have read 43 books.
SOOOO, how do I get all of these things to read the CORRECT number, which I am going to put at 43 books because I am doing it manually?

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Jen wrote: "When I look at the little message I see right when I enter the group that lists my 2020 challenges (It has my profile photo and says "Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge" and then "You have read ..."

This sounds like a glitch and something for the Goodreads help desk.

[Sarah]

Jen wrote: "When I look at the little message I see right when I enter the group that lists my 2020 challenges (It has my profile photo and says "Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge" and then "You have read ..."

Check that you've set a read date for all of the books, that's normally the issue when mine doesn't match up :)

[Jillian]

Jen wrote: "When I look at the little message I see right when I enter the group that lists my 2020 challenges (It has my profile photo and says "Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge" and then "You have read ..."

Looking at your ATY bookshelf these three books are not showing a read date The Poet X, Turtles All the Way Down and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

[Harry]

Just a note; the Community Spreadsheet is missing the G-L tab on the 2021 stats.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm not sure where you're seeing that, Harry. I'm seeing G-L on all of the calculations and the tab is at the bottom there. Can you point me to where you're looking?

[Harry]

Emily wrote: "I'm not sure where you're seeing that, Harry. I'm seeing G-L on all of the calculations and the tab is at the bottom there. Can you point me to where you're looking?"

I'm not that familiar with Google spreadsheets but I see that other tabs in the stats formulas only list the other two tabs so I guess its right. I also see that a new community spreadsheet was created? Other than in the old spreadsheet is this link referenced anywhere else.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yes, I moved 2021 to a new spreadsheet because the old one was cumbersome and slow... too overloaded. Please let me know if you notice anything amiss!

[Valerie]

I cannot remember how to get my 2021 challenge on my page,

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Emily wrote: "Yes, I moved 2021 to a new spreadsheet because the old one was cumbersome and slow... too overloaded. Please let me know if you notice anything amiss!"

The link at the beginning of this thread and the one under Mod Corner both take me to the 2020 spreadsheet. Is there a new link I am missing? I guess that is what Harry is also asking.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

You can find it in the description of the group. I'm going to update all the links for the 2021 spreadsheet tomorrow once everyone has had time to record their 2020 reads and it is officially January 1st for everyone. For now, you can access the 2021 spreadsheet through the link in the group description or through the 2020 spreadsheet by going to the 2021 tabs and using that link provided.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Valerie, I'm not sure what you are trying to do. What page are you trying to put it on?