Shelf-A-Thon 6 Rules

[Angela]

Object of the Game: To have read off the most shelves from the official list below.

Start: November 1st, 2010
*Any book that you finish after this date can be used for this challenge.
End: January 31st, 2011

1. To have read a book off a shelf, you must read a book that is found on that particular shelf. ie. to have read book off the classics shelf, you must read a book that is found on "classics" shelf within the first page.
Here is how you find the page:
-Find the book you just read and click on it so you get to the orginal page. For example: Grapes of Wrath http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4395....
-After you get to this page, look all the way to the right hand side and find Popular Shelves, click on more shelves and you should get to this page: http://www.goodreads.com/book/shelves/43...
and cross off the shelves you 'touched' on the first page.

2. A single book may be found on several shelves however we will only count the first page of top shelves for this book. For example, you may find a book that has 148+ pages of shelves (such as Grapes of Wrath), but only count the first page.

3. You don’t have to read off the shelves in any particular order of shelves.

4. The name of shelves must MATCH EXACTLY to the shelf you are trying to count. No deviations are acceptable (check the spelling off the official list below). For example one shelf reads: 2008-books and another 2008-book or childrens or children-s.

5. It is permissible to read a book that is found on a shelf you've already counted. I may read 10 books that include the shelf "books-i-own". After you have found this shelf once, continue to check off the same shelf, but do not count it as an additonal shelf. At the end of the round, report the shelf you hit the most.

6. Reporting

All we want you to report on the thread is the number of books you've read and the number of shelves these books are found on. Do not report titles because that will give your competitors a strategic edge. I will be creating a another thread where people can post questions on where to find a shelf. So if someone is looking specifically for economics, they can ask other players where they found that shelf. Some of us would like to keep this a secret, as it may give the competitors who are trying to get the most shelves more of an advantage.

For example:
52 shelves
2 books

b. You must track the titles read and the shelves on your own. You can come up with your own method of tracking. I personally print the list and highlight the shelves I have hit, but someone out there may have made a excel spreadsheet, which can be requested by other players via email.

7.HOW DO I GET RID OF SHELVES I CAN'T TOUCH??
If you read a book with a certain amount of pages, you can cross off a shelf you are finding difficult to hit. If you cross off a shelf and later hit it, you cannot change your original shelf. You must choose another shelf to cross off.
* 400 pages - Mark off 1 extra shelf of your choice
* Over 500 pages - Mark off 2 extra shelves of your choice
* Over 600 pages - Mark off 3 extra shelves of your choice
* Over 700-1000 and over pages - Mark off 4 extra shelves of your choice
(Please include this in your reporting)
For example:
216 shelves
23 books
Book over 400 pages crossed off so and so shelf.

8.At the end of each month, the top three shelvers will be allowed to cross off 3 shelves. I will also randomly (names out of a hat) pick 3 people to cross off 2 shelves of their choice.

9.We will continue to celebrate GR authors, so if you read a book by a good reads author, you can eliminate one shelf.

9. Objective
The "winner" is one who has either read off all 350 shelves noted on the official list or who has read the most off these 350 shelves by the end date, January 31st.

*Also, please post the shelf you 'touched' the most at the end of the challenge.

[Liz]

Yay for continuing to celebrate goodreads authors. It was an interesting way to help get some shelves.

[Angela]

I agree Liz!!!

UPDATED SHELVES:

NEW: 21st-century, book, erotic-romance, first-reads, for-review, literary, must-read, pdf, second-hand-bookshop-wishlist, tbr

GONE!!!: africa, all, books-we-own, children-young-adult, criticism, in-my-collection, japan, read-for-school, school-books, to-read-interloan-my

[Angela]

LIST OF SHELVES FOR #6

2000s
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
-
2008-reads
2009-books
2009-read
2009-reads
2010-books
2010-read
2010-reads
20th-century
21st-century
abandoned
academic
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-books
adult-fiction
adult-non-fiction
adventure
all-time-favorites
already-read
amazon-wishlist
american
american-history
and
animals
anthology
anthologies
anthropology
arc
art
at-library
audio
audiobook
audio-book
audiobooks
audio-books
autobiography
biography
biography-memoir
biographies
book
books
bookclub
book-club
bookcrossing
bookcrossing-com
bookshelf
books-i-own
books-i-own-to-read
books-i-want
books-owned
books-read-in-2009
books-read-in-2010
books-to-buy
books-to-check-out
borrowed
british
business
chick-lit
chicklit
childhood
childhood-books
childhood-favorites
children
children-books
childrens
childrensbooks
childrens-books
childrens-fiction
childrens-lit
childrens-picture-books
children-s
children-s-books
children-s-lit
children-s-literature
christian
christian-fiction
christianity
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comic
comics
comic-books
coming-of-age
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
cookbooks
cooking
couldn-t-finish
crafts
crime
crime-fiction
culture
currently-own
design
did-not-finish
didn-t-finish
don-t-own
do-not-own
drama
e-book
ebook
e-books
ebooks
economics
education
england
english
erotic-romance
erotica
essays
europe
family
fantasy
fantasy-scifi
fantasy-sci-fi
fantasy-sf
faves
favorite
favorites
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favourites
feminism
fiction
film
finished
first-reads
fluff
food
for-school
for-review
french
friendship
fun
funny
gay
general
general-fiction
german
glbt
graphic
graphic-novel
graphicnovels
graphic-novels
guilty-pleasures
harlequin
have
have-read
health
high-school
historical
historicalfiction
historical-fiction
historical-romance
history
home-library
horror
humor
humour
indonesian
in-english
in-my-library
inspirational
i-own
i-own-it
i-own-this
juvenile
juvenile-fiction
keepers
kid-books
kids
kids-books
kindle
language
library
library-book
library-books
lit
literary
literary-fiction
literature
love
magic
manga
manga-manhwa
maybe
memoir
memoirs
military
mine
modern-fiction
m-m
music
must-read
my-books
my-favorites
my-library
mysteries
mystery
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
nature
need-to-buy
never-finished
non-fiction
nonfiction
not-at-library
not-available-yet
not-owned
not-read
novel
novels
on-hold
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-shelf
other
own
own-a-copy
own-but-not-read
own-it
own-to-read
owned
owned-books
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
parenting
partially-read
part-of-a-series
pdf
personal-library
philosophy
photography
picture-book
picture-books
picturebooks
plays
poetry
political
politics
psychology
queer
read-aloud
read-2007
read-in-2007
read-2008
read-in-2008
read-2009
read-in-2009
read-2010
read-in-2010
read-more-than-once
realistic-fiction
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
religious
reread
re-read
research
reviewed
romance
romance-erotica-pnr-to-read
school
science
science-fiction
science-fiction-fantasy
sci-fi
scifi
sci-fi-and-fantasy
sci-fi-fantasy
scifi-fantasy
second-hand-bookshop-wishlist
self-help
series
sf
sf-fantasy
short-stories
signed
sociology
speculative-fiction
spiritual
spirituality
spl
sports
stories
supernatural
suspense
tbr
teen
teen-fiction
textbooks
theology
theory
thriller
thrillers
to-buy
to-get
to-purchase
to-read-fiction
to-review
to-read-own
to-re-read
to-reread
traded
travel
unfiled
unfinished
unread
unsorted
urban-fantasy
vampires
want
want-to-buy
want-to-own
want-to-read
war
warehouse
we-own
western
wishlist
wish-list
writing
women
ya
ya-books
ya-fiction
ya-lit
youngadult
young-adult
young-adult-books
young-adult-fiction
youth

[Adrienne]

So, who's got the spreadsheet? And can I get it?

[Angela]

I do not have a spreadsheet. I know that Liz typically updates it once I post the new shelves.

[Liz]

I'm working on it.... Either post your email or message me it and I'll get the spreadsheet out later tonight or sometime tomorrow.

[Angela]

Thanks Liz!! :)

[Liz]

Angela, are we doing crossing off shelves for deleted shelves that we hit in round 5?

[Dee]

hmmm, i tried this last time and completely fell off the wagon...

[Lahni]

Thanks for putting all this together. Looks like so much fun. Just out of curiosity, do you (Angela) decide which shelves to add/delete from the previous list or does the list of top shelves itself change from round to round?

[Lahni]

Question: Is the dash (-) between shelf 2010 and 2008-reads a shelf or what does it mean?

[Angela]

Lahni- It is a lot of fun. They changed from round to round. The (-) is actually a shelf. LOL!

Liz- I put the deleted shelves under the reporting thread :)

[Leslie]

Thanks again Angela for coordinating this. I have really enjoyed this challenge! And I love going from the frustration of finding books to knock off shelves at the end of a challenge to the fresh start of the beginning of a challenge!

[Kate]

Hey Liz,

Can I get the new spreadsheet please? childresskl@gmail.com

Thanks!

[Dee]

ditto - i'm going to try again - littlemisscasualty@gmail.com

[[deleted user]]

I'd love to try this challenege - please send the spreadsheet to scbecker at gmail.com. Thank you!

[Tammy AZ]

Hi Liz can I get the spreadsheet at tlryan1822@cox.net?

Thanks!!

[Gemma]

Hello everyone,

I stumbled across your group today, and having had a rootle around, I've set down my cushion and decided to hang around if you'll have me :) This shelf-a-thon looks interesting.

Couple of questions if I may: Above you say that any book finished since the start date counts – I've only finished one so far this month, but it's one that I've been reading on the side for literally years, can I really count it? Seems a little cheeky!

Also, can I just check that they way you do it is to look at the book then click on "more shelves" of the popular shelves and count anything on the first page (think I read the first five in some of the rules)?

Looking forward to your clarifications and hopefully joining in.

Gem
x

[Liz]

As long as you finished the book since the challenge started it counts.

It's the first page of shelves. It used to be the first five, but then goodreads combined them.

[Lahni]

Gemma wrote: "Hello everyone,

I stumbled across your group today, and having had a rootle around, I've set down my cushion and decided to hang around if you'll have me :) This shelf-a-thon looks interesting...."

Congrats for finishing the book you've been working on for years! I'm impressed with your persistence.

[Gemma]

Thanks! It was my "bedside non-fiction" book for dipping into a few pages at a time - seems like I've been reading it forever!

Thanks for the clarifications... I'm on the case...

[Hannah]

A hearty hello to all of the new players! So glad to have you!

[travelgirlut]

I'd like to join if it's not too late. Do I have to add my name somewhere or something? I'd also love the spreadsheet: travelgirlut @ hotmail dot com. Thanks!

[Adrienne]

travelgirlut, it's not too late! You can count any book you've read since November 1.

Post your counts on this page: Shelf A Thon 6 Reporting

You'll see how it's done.

Welcome!

[Hannah]

Welcome Travelgirlut!! Have fun with the challenge and don't hesitate to ask for help or pointers. The competitors here are all extremely nice and helpful (and crazy fast readers).

[Gemma]

Hannah the Blonde wrote: ....(and crazy fast readers)."

I've definitely been lacking somewhat in this respect of late! Just seem to have been so busy! I'm off on holiday tomorrow though, so am hoping to catch up with some quality book time by the pool :)

[Sara ♥]

As someone who read 55 books last challenge (WHAT??), I just want to say that I read crazy VOLUMES, not crazy fast! I only work part time and I read a lot of juvenile and young adult fiction... ;) Probably 8 of those were picture books...

[Julie]

This sounds like a fun challenge!! I would love to join if it isn't too late!! :)

[travelgirlut]

How do I count pages for an audio book?

[Sara ♥]

I just click on the most popular version of the book and use the page numbers from that.

[Roseann]

I will be joining in again. I am soooo glad to be reading for fun, rather than classes!!!

[Adrienne]

Oh yay Roseann! Glad to have you back!

[Deedee]

Hello all -- I'd like to join in too! Even though the challenge time is half-over. It will be interesting to see which books I've read will fit.

[Adrienne]

Welcome Deedee!

[Jason "Book Sniper"]

Hello everyone, I would like to join this but I need some help tracking. Does anyone have a spreadsheet they are willing to share :)

[Liz]

I usually send out the spreadsheet but best buy is busy turning my computer into frankenstein's monster. It sounds like I won't get it back until the 24th at the earliest.

Does anyone else have one they can sendout?

As a side note, I (probably) won't be able to finish the challenge. Unlimited data plans =/= unlimited patience or the foresight to print my spreadsheet.

[Jason "Book Sniper"]

Thanks Liz, if you find one can you let me know :)

[Adrienne]

I found my email that Liz originally sent me of the spreadsheet. PM me your email and I'll get it to you, Jason?

[Liz]

Thanks Adrienne. I knew someone had to have a copy somewhere.

[Gemma]

Boo. Just dicovered one of mine I read in December was a goodreads author and I didn't notice so I didn't cross off another shelf. Can I cross it off along with my next one or have I missed my chance? :)

[Adrienne]

Gemma wrote: "Boo. Just dicovered one of mine I read in December was a goodreads author and I didn't notice so I didn't cross off another shelf. Can I cross it off along with my next one or have I missed my chan..."

Go ahead and cross it off, I think.

[Liz]

I'd also say to cross it off. You read the book.

[Gemma]

Aw, you're too good to me :) Thanks!

[Suzanne]

Awww! Too late to hit this one up. Hope there is another one afterwards! Sounds like fun and I think, THINK, I might understand it. :)

[Liz]

The next one should start in February. Let me know if you want the spread sheet for this one to try to get the hang of things

[Dionisia]

This challenge is slightly intimidating at first glance but seems like fun! I may try it next go round.

[Suzanne]

Liz, that would be great! I'll message you my email.

[SandyC]

Will there be a different list for the next round?

[Sara ♥]

It will most likely be slightly different... It'll be the top 350 shelves, which usually change a bit all the time. There will probably be new shelves like 2011, read-in-2011, etc, which will kick some of the current shelves off.