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The May Page Count Challenge (Team Challenge) - Sign-ups and Questions
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Apr 18, 2015 12:52PM
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Sarah wrote: "Jenni wrote: "...so no points for non-buddy reads?"Basically we'll be counting pages rather than books, and then converting to points. so where as usually you'd get 1 point for a book that was 20..."
Ah, thanks! I'll join for fun :)
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Sarah wrote: "I'll be sending out another group message soon, to try and make sure that everyone who wants to sign-up has, and then we'll think about picking teams ☺"Yay!
Ahh, what the heck. Serious team, please.
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Do poetry books count for the challenge? The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson has been on my to read list forever. :)"
I'll discuss it with Abbie, we usually allow poetry books, but I know this one has a low word count compared to it's page count, so I'm not sure.
Can I join team Fun? :) I don't want to feel the pressure next month :P
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Do poetry books count for the challenge? The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson has been on my to read list forever. :)"
The issue with this book is that it has pictures in it, and the poems obviously fill more pages than the number of words would suggest, and there's also random lists of poems that you probably wouldn't read as such.
anyway, the first book of poems has a word count of like 7,374 words, which is about 29 regular pages, (the kindle edition of this 145 pages) - so you can see the difference. I think we could give you 50 pages for each of the series of poems, and i think the letters are around 400 pages long on their own, so the book would probably be worth around 550 pages rather than the 2700 pages it's listed as. Does that make sense?
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I'd like to be added to the serious team please!
Sarah, I'm thinking to read
The problem is, it's a short story and illustrated book. The illustrations aren't that much but they are there in the book. Can I count it for the challenge?
If I'm not too late count me in as "for fun".
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Serious:
Elizabeth M.
Dana
Gayatri
Miranda
Fun:
Melany
Agrima
Twila
Irena
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The problem is, it's a short story and illustrated book. The illustrations aren't that much but they are there in the bo..."There are about 40 pages of writing in that one, so I can give you 40 pages ☺ Does that sound alright?
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@Sarah, it's alright. I can use that 40 pages. Thanks! Just curious, though. How do you know that there are 40 writing pages? I have it and yet didn't know it, lol
Question about how the page count will work. Are we all going to use one format (hardback, for example) to determine the number of pages we read? Because one of the books I'm reading is 1258 pages (paperback) but only 1008 pages in hardback. So someone reading the same book wouldn't have as many pages if they had the hardback copy and counted that. Maybe I'm overthinking, just wondering. :)
Someone else brought that up, that they would need to search for the publication with the most pages, so that is a valid question, maybe if we just made a standard format as you suggested that would be the best, so there is no future problems.
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