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In case you are like me, and need help figuring which book will fit this task...... The book I posted for 15.1 just now, Thud!, mentions a few elements. Off the top I remember iron, silver, gold, copper, and zinc(!).
Ha! I read this task differently. I read it as the element needed to be in the title. LOLWell, what I've planned will either work or it won't. 🤷
So far, every planned book I've been able to search in Google Books has either gold or silver!
The book I just read for Scrabble has mentions of gold and silver. It's a legal thriller where a white girl accuses Muslim boys of rape.Take It Back by Kia Abdullah
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ha! I read this task differently. I read it as the element needed to be in the title. LOLWell, what I've planned will either work or it won't. 🤷"
Funny you should say that because the book I originally picked for the task has 'silver' in the title - but then I was worried that wasn't what the task asked for! ha, ha.... I just found one that works in my real TBR pile. The Disappearance of Signora Giulia
Rosemary wrote: "So far, every planned book I've been able to search in Google Books has either gold or silver!"I've had a pretty similar result. I think this task is going to have a lot of combo points!
Rosemary wrote: "So far, every planned book I've been able to search in Google Books has either gold or silver!"I don't see where books are searchable at Google Books. But in any case, they would have to have been granted copyright privileges.
I was planning (thinking the word had to be in the title) Red Gold. I found a publisher's preview where the first paragraph includes "lead sheeting". No gold? OK, we'll take lead.(And yes, this appears to be from a partnership between the publisher and Google Books.)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I don't see where books are searchable at Google Books. But in any case, they would have to have been granted copyright privileges."OK, so I found it. I use Chrome and have been a Google advocate for some time. And I'm pretty computer saavy. This isn't as user friendly as I would have expected.
You can search on Google Books if they are linking to the ebook with a Preview link. It's like the "look inside" feature on Amazon and I'm sure publishers give permission for that. You still have to buy the book if you want to read the rest of it.Sometimes you can't search the whole book, but only the first few pages. But often you can search the whole book, and you just get a short snippet for each result. Some books are not searchable at all, and I think that's usually because Google doesn't have access to an ebook that people can buy through them.
Thanks, Rosemary. I guess I only need to use that for the physical books I’m planning. Kindle has a search feature. 🫢
I think the first scavenger type task we had was a few years back when we needed to find an occurrence of someone drinking tea. I love tea and loved that task and now am a big fan of the scavenger tasks. I’ve found three elements already in the Joyce Carol Oates book I’m reading now. Next up for me after that is Telephone by Percival Everett, and taking a quick peek I've already found gold, silver, and aluminum.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rosemary wrote: "So far, every planned book I've been able to search in Google Books has either gold or silver!"I don't see where books are searchable at Google Books. But in any case, they would..."
Thanks for bringing this up, I use to be able to find the link to search and now it has disappeared on me.
Rosemary, your explanation is great-but can you give a more detailed explanation as to how to do it? They must have changed it since the last time I needed to use it as I know that books I have tried to search recently should be searchable.
Joanne wrote: "Thanks for bringing this up, I use to be able to find the link to search and now it has disappeared on me."I finally found it at the very bottom of the screen.
Also, if you use Libby through your library, use the “read a sample” option on the book page and search for the word. It seems to search the entire book, not just the sample, and appears to allow search for books not held by my local library but available through other libraries.
Joanne wrote: "Rosemary, your explanation is great-but can you give a more detailed explanation as to how to do it?"So at Google Books I would type in "A Walk in the Woods", to use a group read.
Choose a version with a preview, and click on Preview.
Then I always go "Back to classic Google Books" at the top, because I find the new version annoying. Then the search box is on the left, under the cover image. It is prefilled with the book title or whatever you searched for before, but you can type anything there and click Go.
If you don't go "Back to classic Google Books" then as Elizabeth said, the search box is at the bottom of the screen when looking at the preview. Or if you X to close the preview, there is a "Search inside" box near the top of the screen.
If that doesn't work for you, it may be different in different countries. I am in the UK.
Thanks so much-I will try it out again
Will hyphenated words work? "I looked out the lead-paned window"
Denise wrote: "Will hyphenated words work? "I looked out the lead-paned window""No plurals or other forms, including no hypens for this one.
Joanna wrote: "Denise wrote: "Will hyphenated words work? "I looked out the lead-paned window""No plurals or other forms, including no hypens for this one."
Got it!
Is pronunciation a limitation? That is, will “lead” work if context of the sentence is about leading?
Owlette wrote: "Is pronunciation a limitation? That is, will “lead” work if context of the sentence is about leading?"No, the pronunciation has to be the same even if the meaning is different.
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Reading with Style
Books mentioned in this topic
Telephone (other topics)Red Gold (other topics)
The Disappearance of Signora Giulia (other topics)
Take It Back (other topics)
Thud! (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Joyce Carol Oates (other topics)Percival Everett (other topics)
Kia Abdullah (other topics)
Read a book that mentions an element from the periodic table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...). Provide a quote that mentions the element name in your post. No plurals or other forms of the element name. Using an element name that does not refer to a physical substance, e.g., “copper” referring to a police officer not the metal, is allowed.