Readathon Chat

[Jamie]

For Reverse Readathon, from long experience, it seems to work better to post discussion questions all at once So, watch for discussion threads for each Readathon hour, coming soon.
We will do our standard hourly scheduled sprints at
Hour 1
Hour 4
Hour 8
Hour 12
Hour 16
Hour 20
Hour 24

There are Bingo boards posted in Discord and Facebook, along with an invitation for everyone to try their hand at making their own board to share, or prompts for a great bingo board. Cynda has a pre-readathon challenge posted here in Goodreads, and we are starting to see TBRs rolling in on our various social media platforms.

[Katie Cat Books]

Please post updates on the website (readathon has not even been announced there) and on Instagram.

[Elyse]

They no longer use the website and their Instagram anymore. It's primarily Goodreads, Discord, Facebook.

[Katie Cat Books]

I understand, but i dont think they understand how many people are not participating due to lack of information. People primarily go to the main website for information and so many people i know use Instagram as their primary social media. Some people I know have even quit Instagram and only use it for the readathon. I don't use Facebook or discord, and the only reason I am still on goodreads is solely for this group and access to information about the readathon. I hope deweys expands their information to other channels, and even storygraph in the future.

[Inge (Inge1990)]

I agree, I looked up the times and dates for this readathon and couldn't find it. I know about the facebook and about this group hence I'm here.
But I would love to be able to go to the website and just use that for information instead of trying to get it on one of the other media's...

[Cynda]

Appears these issues may have been addresssed. Please see
Dewey's website: https://deweysreadathon.wordpress.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deweysreada...
I turn over to Jaime any other questions on the topic.

[Dee]

Cynda is preoccupied with RL wrote: "Appears these issues may have been addresssed. Please see
Dewey's website: https://deweysreadathon.wordpress.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deweysreada...
I turn over to Jaime any other ..."

but the last post on the website was the wrap up from the April RAT - no mention of July or October there

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Instagram is still active from members with tags that I enjoy. I used to love the daily hosts on X/Twitter but that discontinued as that site lost popularity with stuff like that, which I get.

I use here, FB group some, every once in awhile instagram, and the discord.

[Cynda]

DeweysReadathon I saw says reverse readathon starts July 18th. It is blue poster/square with beach background. Last commenter posted about 40 minutes ago. . . .Anything at all else will have to wait for Jaime. This is alI I can do.

[Ron]

Is there a discord?

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Ron wrote: "Is there a discord?"

Discord
https://discord.com/channels/10356045...

Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dewey...

[Ron]

Cool thanks. In terms of the bingo stuff, do we create our own cards?

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Ron wrote: "Cool thanks. In terms of the bingo stuff, do we create our own cards?"

This year it seems more like it. Usually they have some pre-made ones but this year seems more ideas and prompts to do your own.

[Cynda]

Right. I set up a pre-readathon challenge with prompts. There are bingo cards other Dewey participants use from time to time. Also some Deweys group members work on bingo cards from their other groups. Post in your blog or your thread here as you wish.

[Cynda]

It will help us stay in topic and not get confused if we post all general questions about our July Reverse Readathon here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Cynda]

Also we have an announcements thread near the top of our group home page.

[Elyse]

Cynda is preoccupied with RL wrote: "DeweysReadathon I saw says reverse readathon starts July 18th. It is blue poster/square with beach background. Last commenter posted about 40 minutes ago. . . .Anything at all else will have to wai..."

The website though, has not been updated since April ending.

[Jamie]

Ron wrote: "Cool thanks. In terms of the bingo stuff, do we create our own cards?"

Katie Cat Books wrote: "I understand, but i dont think they understand how many people are not participating due to lack of information. People primarily go to the main website for information and so many people i know us..."

I do like the idea of expanding to Storygraph. Each location we add requires admins to maintain our presence there and we have not had admins super familiar with Storygraph yet to expand there. As far as posting the readathon dates, we have a huge green banner at the top of our Facebook and Goodreads, and that was posted to discord and that I am pretty sure we shared to Twitter. We have 1 admin recruited just for Instagram, which I do not have the tech to manage very well (no smartphone). The website has had low traffic for years, so while some people are still checking it, the stats show that most people don't visit even when we are keeping it updated. I want to revamp the website and make it useful year-round, but that will be a longer-term project that has not happened yet.

And yes, this year for this Readathon you are invited to create and share your own bingo card(s). I did post a pair of pre-made cards on Facebook and discord, though, for folks who like the ones I make. Goodreads doesn't lend itself to graphics anyway, so we rarely share actual images of boards here.