Shelf-a-Thon Round 3

[Sara ♥]

Errr... that's a bit generous! I believe Lyn came up with the original idea... I just adapted it...

[Tani]

I'm totally up for another round, and I'm looking forward trying out the new rules. Lyn, could you send me the spreadsheet as well? My email address is anbakoori@yahoo.com. Thanks!

[Angela]

Sara I thought it was an excellent idea, so thanks to Lyn for thinking it up and you adapting it!

[Angela]

Lyn's suggested:
*At the end post the book that 'touched' the most shelves for you.
Edited to the rules section...

[Angela]

This is going to mean more keeping a better track of books read, shelves touched once, shelves touched more than one, and pages read and shelves eliminated. Hope this is not making it more complicated, just more fun!!

[Angela]

Here is who is in right now...let me know if you would like to play in round 3 or if I missed ya! Thanks :)

Angela:
Sara:
Susanna:
Kim L:
Liz:
Rebecca:
Nicole NC:
Lyn M:
Cindy CA:
Jen B:
Laura ME:
Roseann:
Kate:
Lynda:
Chriz:
Andreea:
Tani:
Rebecca MA:
Beth:

[Rebecca]

I'd like to join in too if it's not too late! If you could just point me in the direction of the directions of exactly how this works (and also explain how the , that would be great! I've taken a look at the challenges in the past, but I just want to make sure that I understand the rules and how everything works! Thanks!

Rebecca MA

[Susanna]

Hey Lyn, could you send the spreadsheet as well, please? susie_everton@hotmail.com Thanks! :)

[Foxy Grandma]

I started this in the first one, and "life" interrupted this one and the seasonal challenge. But I think things have calmed down enough to try again. So count me in. Also Lyn, can you send your spreadsheet, (lioness828@charter.net) I know I took it and morphed it to fit me last time, but I can't find it now. Thanks Lyn

I am also looking forward to reading the thread to find books, I am very comptetitive, but I also like hearing what other people read and enjoyed or didn't enjoy. How else do we discover new books and authors?

And thanks to Angela for doing this and keeping track of everybody.

[Angela]

Rebecca the directions are on the previous page of this thread. If after you read them and are still confused let me know and be specific so I can answer your questions directly. Thanks :)

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Chriz wrote: "Andreea wrote: "^Here is the original thread.

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I want in too. :D I need something to motivate me into reading more than usual this spring."

Thank you Andreea. I would love to take part too. Co..."

Chriz - I tried to send you the spreadsheets, but it says the transmission was rejected by the recipient's domain.

[Chrizette]

Lyn M wrote: "Chriz wrote: "Andreea wrote: "^Here is the original thread.

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I want in too. :D I need something to motivate me into reading more than usual this spring."

Thank you Andreea. I would love to take..."

Mmmmm - maybe could you try my yahoo-mail? peanut71102@yahoo.com - thank you and sorry for the trouble :)

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I think that one worked CHriz. Let me know.

[Rebecca NJ]

I've been thinking about what books I have to finish for the Seasonal Challenge and was looking at the reviews and just saw something that triggered two questions.

1. At what point should you check to see what shelves the book is on - before or after you add it to your own ‘read” list and shelves?

2. What about a bonus cross off category for a book that isn't on any shelves?

The reason I ask these questions is one of my books has no ratings and is not on any shelves and this isn't the first time this has happened to me. If I add it to my shelves, obviously it would then be placed on those shelves but as of right now, there are no reviews and as it’s an older book, I don’t think there’s going to be a sudden rush to read it!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Good questions Rebecca - The rule for checking to see what shelves a book is on is that you can't count the shelves until you finish the book. The reason for this is that the shelves may change (I have had that happen to me, but not very often).

As for not hitting any shelves, that is quite a feat. If it just hits no "new" shelves (i.e. it is not the first book that you read), you just don't count it. If it doesn't hit any shelves out of 350, or any at all - I can see that happening with either a brand new book, or a book that is really unique.

What say you guys to that? Angela?

[Kim]

I received the spread sheet, thanks Lyn! How many books can you use the spreadsheet to keep track of? What do you do if you read more books than there is space for?

[Angela]

I personally do not look to see what books are going to touch shelves, but I think you can do that if you wanted to, you just cannot count the shelves until the book is finished. I have had numerous books not hit any shelves at all because it may be a new book. Although, I have read books that do not touch any new shelves, but now that we are trying to see how many times we can touch a shelf, it may be more interesting. I am not sure if I am understanding the question correctly.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Kim L wrote: "I received the spread sheet, thanks Lyn! How many books can you use the spreadsheet to keep track of? What do you do if you read more books than there is space for?"

I just re-sent the first two spreadsheets, updated for 50 books. The third already allows that many.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

So - I was thinking about Rebecca's question, and I came up with this change. How about at the end we report both the book that hit the MOST shelves AND the book that hit the LEAST shelves. That is where you would post your book that hit NO shelves.

[Kim]

Thanks, Lyn!!! 50 books should be plenty.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Cool, Don't know what I was thinking, 23 would never be enough!

[Sara ♥]

Heehee... My spreadsheet holds 100 books... (I made it bigger...) I just finished book 48... I may just hit 50 before Sunday night. You never know...

[Rebecca NJ]

I typically don't check the books I am reading shelf-wise but I am about 50 pages into this one book for the seasonal challenge and I'm struggling with it and was wondering if there were any reviews to see what other people thought about it. That is when I noticed that this book, published in 1996 and is the first of a tilogy had no ratings, no reviews, and was not listed on any shelves at all (although the other 2 did.) I hadn't thought about this before but when I complete any book, I would typcially put it on my shelves - in this case 2010, read, and own and then see what the top 100 shelves are. My question is, at what point do people typically go through the shelf list (before or after adding it to their own list). Does that make more sense?

[Sara ♥]

I usually go through the shelves after I've rated, reviewed, and shelved a book. I don't know if this is what others do... I wish we had a 2010 shelf this time! I've had a bunch of those since the new year started!

[Rebecca NJ]

Sara ♥ wrote: "I usually go through the shelves after I've rated, reviewed, and shelved a book...."

Not like I would do it, but by going though the shelves after you've rated, reviewed and shelved a book, as I usually do, you can sway the results. It's all the honest system anyway but seeing this made me realize just how easily it could be to knock out those darn shelves I never seem to hit. There was that conversation about books being placed on unusual/unexpected shelves.

It's not a big deal - I was just wondering when everyone one else went through the shelves.

[Angie]

I'm sitting this round out.

I'm due in 3 weeks, so I won't be having much time to read soon..........

[Chrizette]

Lyn M wrote: "Chriz wrote: "Andreea wrote: "^Here is the original thread.

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I want in too. :D I need something to motivate me into reading more than usual this spring."

Thank you Andreea. I would love to take..."

Thank you, Lyn - received it now :)

[Jay]

I'd like to give this a go.

May I have a copy of the spreadsheet as well, please? :) (jrv3 at buffalo dot edu). Thanks ahead of time!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Sara ♥ wrote: "Heehee... My spreadsheet holds 100 books... (I made it bigger...) I just finished book 48... I may just hit 50 before Sunday night. You never know..."

The one you sent me allows 80, I think, but I was just saying that it did not need to be updated. I know, you are a reading fanatic!!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Jay wrote: "I'd like to give this a go.

May I have a copy of the spreadsheet as well, please? :) (jrv3 at buffalo dot edu). Thanks ahead of time!"

Just sent it.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Sara ♥ wrote: "I usually go through the shelves after I've rated, reviewed, and shelved a book. I don't know if this is what others do... I wish we had a 2010 shelf this time! I've had a bunch of those since t..."

There is a 2010 shelf this time!

[Sara ♥]

I know, yay! I don't think there's a read-in-2010 though, which I've already run into as well...

EDIT: Oh! Just kidding! Yay!

[Diane]

I'm in.

[Jennifer]

I'd like to join in, can you please forward me the excel spreadsheet to jforan71477@yahoo.com. Thanks.

[Foxy Grandma]

Good Reading everyone.......

[Jen B]

Just out of curiosity, how does everyone mark off shelves on the spreadsheet? I've been going through the first 5 pages of shelves for the book(s) that I read, and cutting and pasting them into a column on the sheet. Then I alphabetize them (using Excel's little A-Z button) and go down the list and mark the ones that match. But I keep thinking there has to be an easier way! Anyone have a better way to do it?

[Sara ♥]

Are you using THE spreadsheet? For that one, the shelves are all on one side, alphabetized, then you type the book title, etc. in one of the columns at the top, then you can just put a 1 (or some other number) in that column in the rows corresponding to the shelves on the first 5 pages... If that makes sense....

[Andreea]

For books with over 400 pages, could I decide what shelves to cross off later on? I'm not sure what kind of books I'll read in the future, so I'd want to save up the bonus for the end of the challenge.

[Angela]

Andreea, it has to be decided right away. That is challenging part.

[Carol]

I´ll be joining o/

But since I´m not the biggest fan of this new twist, I´ll just ignore it LOL

could you pleeeease send me the spreadsheet again? *_* layla dot mayfair at gmail dot com

[Maria]

if it isn't too late, i'd love to be in on this round! i loved it the first time, but with the holidays, i had to sit out round 2.

and if i could possibly get a copy of the updated spreadsheet, that would be awesome. i'm mth0927 at hotmail dot com

thanks so much!!!

[Hannah]

I'd like to give the challenge a shot! Could I also get the spreadsheet? hannah dot carper at gmail dot com

[Angela]

It is not too late to join! I will accept new "shelvers" until Feb 15th...

[Maria]

thanks angela!

[Hannah]

Phew! Thanks!

[Sally]

Oh yaaaay! It's not too late! I'm of course joining. Despite reading more books in round 2, I hit less shelves. Hopefully I can read more books AND get more shelves this time around.

I'M IN!

[Angela]

5 more days to join!!! :)
Thanks for all who are participating!!

[ilona]

Am I too late? I would really like to join if it's still ok.

[Kate]

Can I still join? I know I am a bit late...

[Angela]

Sure to both!! Glad to have you :)