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Spring: Spring Cleaning
Good work, Acorral (2000!), Jojiwoji, & Jennifer!
UpdateI read
12. In the Woods 4/19
and I deleted another 639 books from my tbr shelf that I am no longer interested in reading. I still have many more pages to go through. It looks like when I first joined in 2010 I went add happy and added a ton of books.
Don´t hate me for it, I just have to say it ... to anyone who organize their books by "genre" - could you, please, watch what you´re placing on, for example "young adult" shelf, because books on goodreads are well, labeled how members label them. we had problems in fantasy group over books that are fantasy but were shelved as young adult (but are not ya at all) and people were fighting because ya couldn´t be nominated for book of month. it may not seem important to you, but people do chose books by how they´re shelved and maybe some of you even experianced some problems with this, like you check the recommendation under romance and you get thriller or cookbook
I always get erotica under paranormal and it´s driving me crazy!
Please, please just be careful how you shelf particular book, no for me but for the sake of all goodreads members. (:
Lára IS wrote: "...to anyone who organize their books by "genre" - could you, please, watch what you´re placing on, for example "young adult" shelf..."Lára, are you talking to me? Do you mean a specific book? Because I finally divided mine into three categories:
...and then they went an added a NEW category entitled..."new adult" ...at least I think that is what it is called.genre-ya-young-adult (68)
genre-ya-young-adult-teen (5)
genre-ya-young-adults-mature (9)
No, Lisa Kay, to everyone. (; I´m not planning on checking who adds what and where, I just wanted to ask people to be careful, that´s all.
Update:Read:
13. Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth
Removed another 1,174 books from my TBR list.
Going through my list has made me realize a few bad habits that I have.
1. When someone recommends a book in a series, I tend to add every single book in that series before I even know if I'm going to like the first book.
2. I tend to add books from Goodreads lists, based on their cover only.
3. I tend to download a ton of free books on Amazon...and end up reading the description later and not wanting to read the book.
4. I don't need to have the 1001 books to read before I die all in my tbr list. There is a spreadsheet, so I can work from that instead of clogging up my tbr list with books I may or may not really want to read someday.
Now it's time to attack the bookshelves.
I've narrowed my bookshelves down to 42. The staying ones are narrowed way down. Many of the others are challenge shelves and those will go away when the challenge ends or the end of the year.Also read Revolution World which has been on my list forever.
Hi all my name is Stephanie and I am new to this group. I love reading challenges and I am looking forward to completing your awesome challenge ideas! I recently cleaned up my TBR list so its not as crazy as may of the members above me but thats ok. It's all about reading as much as you can and having fun doing it =) Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
I have 49 TBR books!
How many bookshelves do you have?
I have 28 bookshelves at the moment!
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
I believe I have about 15 unread books that I own!
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
I want to read as many as I can but right now I'll set my goal for 10
7/17
My too read list for this challenge:
5/14/13 -OWN
- 5/19/13
- 5/24/13 
- 6/4/13
- 6/21/13
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- 6/7/13 
- 6/10/13
So, this is actually something I've been planning to do for a few weeks now but just haven't gotten around to for one reason or another. As it happens, I decided to look through all of the old challenges in this group and lo and behold, here was this one, calling out to me!Details:
Duration: Unspecified. Starting date May 19, 2013. Going to take a casual approach with this one and play it by ear.
The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves.
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer interest you. (You may be surprised by how many books no longer interest you).
*Go through every book on TBR and tag them "library" if they are available at my library. (WIP)
*While going through TBR, consider which year-long or open-ended challenges would work for each book. Make note of Title, Author, Series Name on text file with saved challenge info for reference.
Be sure to post the name of the shelves you created or deleted below. As with all of our challenges we want to see your progress.
The Reading
*Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
*After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you want to read the most.
(Tip: You may want to look at the ones that have been on the list the longest)
*After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to read as many books as possible.
*Read!
Be sure to list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list.
Optional
Pre Challenge Survey
*How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1846 (LOL)
*How many bookshelves do you have? 117 (is that too many? I'm not sure, hehe. I have a lot of shelves named for months/years that I read books as a reference)
*How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? A bunch! Too many! 3 book cases or so. And most of them are NOT listed on my GR shelves, which is something I've been wanting to fix.
*How many books do you want to read for this challenge? Not sure yet. I guess we'll start with 12 and see how it goes. Seems low but I am not sure how I'm working this challenge at this time.
Post Challenge Survey
*How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
*How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
*Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
*Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
*Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?
Progress:
First thing I'm going to do is look at shelves with the lowest book counts on them to see what is there and if the shelf is relevant or needs to be expanded with other books.
*Removed "ya-club-2012" shelf because I had just two books on it and it was for a challenge I did not complete last summer for a group I wasn't very active in. Those books are on other shelves.
*Merged 'ya' into 'young-adult'
*Merged 'thrillers' with 'thriller'; deleted 'thrillers'
*Merged 'comedy' with 'humor'; deleted 'comedy'
*Deleted something 'lost', for an old challenge I never did
*Deleted 'urban fantasy' because I only had one book there and I don't read much UF and if I do, it usually has a more specific tag
*Deleted two 'winter challenge' related shelves, due to them being so long ago they no longer feel relevant (books are tagged other categories, though)
*Deleted 'spring challenge' for same reason as above
*Deleted 'fall challenge 2010' for same reason as above
*Merged 'mysteries' into 'mystery'; deleted 'mysteries'
*Deleted 'police-procedural' and merged those with either 'cops' or 'detectives', etc.
*Deleted 'not-quite-a-romance-novel' because I don't feel like bothering with it
*Deleted 'ya-romance' because I don't feel like figuring out which books fit the 'romance' sub-category
*Deleted 'true crime' because I had only one book there and I rarely read that genre
*Deleted 'supernatural' and changed 'paranormal' to 'paranormal-supernatural' to cut down on tags
I have a LOT of shelves that are named for different challenges (such as blue-cover or named for a location in case of a country/state challenge). I'm debating if I want to continue that trend or try to streamline my shelf names, which will make things harder to track in future challenges...
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Welcome to the group and the challenge, Stephanie!
Yes, Teresa, this is a good one. I need to continue on with it, too. Welcome to the challenge.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Welcome to the group and the challenge, Stephanie!"Thanks Lisa, I feel like this is going to be an awesome group everyone is so friendly!
Nothing but Reading ChallengesSpring Cleaning Reading Challenge
Progress: 12/12 Questions; 33/20 Books
Completed: 9/22/13
Pre-Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
to-read - 1645; bbc-suggestion - 371; maybe - 210; not-for-me - 31; reference - 6; short-list - 12; to-finish - 3; to-listen - 153; to-read-someday - 49
How many bookshelves do you have? 126
[early this year, started organizing my books & added shelves]
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
ebooks - 6; paperback - 57; hardcover - 29
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
16 to-reads, 3 bbc-suggestion, 1 short-list, 1 to-listen
[already reading 6 owned books this year for another challenge]
to-read (16/16)
next-in-series
bbc-suggestion (4/3)
short-list (8/1)
to-listen (5/1)
Post-Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge? 33
How many of them were already owned? 9 On your TBR list? 16
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many? 115 shelves
[probably created 20 shelves in recent re-organization]
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
to-read - 1109; bbc-suggestion - 367; caudill-nominee - 521; maybe - 213; not-for-me - 31; reference - 5; short-list - 18; to-finish - 4; to-listen - 199; to-read-someday - 73
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? yes
This was a great challenge. I created more bookshelves, listed all my unread books on my shelf and reorganized all my shelves. Excited to read my books!
Welcome to the challenge, Marla!Glad you liked it, Scm!
I am going to use the last of my extension gift cards to extend this challenge (Message #100) until July 20, 2013
I don't blame you, Melissa. I think I will, too. LOL!
lol. Don't blame you either, Lisa Kay. The months just got away with me. o.O :D
Too, too fast. I will be Christmas soon.
Kristin wrote: "How do you get these snazzy gift cards?! I won't be able to finish my challenge and I just went thru my to-read shelf again, deleted another 20 books, and still have more than when I originally sta..."Kristin, got it at Extension "Gift Card" for NBRC Challenges
it has been very helpful but you need to use them by tomorrow because they expire then.
Oh, that's right. Tomorrow. Thanks, Melissa, for the reminder.I'm going to apply my other two cards to this challenge then...
*They do expire today, but I think you can still use them today, though!I haven't found anything wrong with the link. :(. Click on this link (http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/b...) and save the web address at the top.
Then insert that address in the link
<*remove the asterisks and this message leaving no space between the < and img* img src="Paste link here" width="150" height="100" alt="description"/>
Yay! Good work, Kristin! Thanks for helping out, Melissa!
I am glad you were able to post them. :D
Hi everybody, I realize I'm a little late for this challenge, but I just discovered this group , luv it and this is exactly what I've been looking for... So as they say " better late than never" I must start counting and get it all together then ill post!! Thank u for sharing this challenge, very inspiring to do some much needed
Book shelf organizing and make extra reading time!!! :)
Book shelf organizing and make extra reading time!!! :)
is this challenge still going on?!
Vickie and Stephanie, if you want to start it now, that is fine. Welcome to the challenge.
Completed: Message #100I was unable to read the books I wanted to, so I found a good stopping place. :D It is complete as far as I can go.
Oooh, I really like the look of this challenge. So would like to take part in this.Pre survey:
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
988
How many bookshelves do you have?
83
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
321
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
20
Mod
Mod
I'm in! NBRC: Spring Cleaning Reading Challenge
I'm going to reorganize and consolidate some shelves.
00/20
Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
to-read (1404)How many bookshelves do you have?
next-in-series (53)
next-in-series-audio-reread (16)
to-ponder (250)
to-read-first-in-series (69)
to-read-series (436)
401
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
Unknown - they are packed in boxes, ready for my moving.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
20
Im in!Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
1582 yikes
How many bookshelves do you have?
15
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
216
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
40
Deleted shelves: blind date/pick it for me, buddyread march, march book pool, spell it out, buddy reads
added: buddy read april, saw movie uninterested, made me cry, 2013, 2012, book boyfriends, books i own, free on amazon, won in giveaway
Deleted ____ Books
goal: I really want to get some series done
Books:
(25/40)
Pre Challenge Survey How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 2,259
How many bookshelves do you have? About 120
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? Too many to count. I have several hundred paperbacks and hardcovers, plus my kindle is almost full.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? At least 20
The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their
appropriate shelves.
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer
interest you. (You may be surprised by how many books no longer
interest you).
The Reading
*Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
*After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you
want to read the most.
(Tip: You may want to look at the ones that have been on the list the longest)
*After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to
read as many books as possible.
*Read!
Mod
I am going to use the birthday extension cards to extend this challenge till August 20th :)
I'm in again.
Ⓐ Pre-Challenge Survey
① How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1,524 books
② How many bookshelves do you have? 49 bookshelves
③ How many unread books do you own? Honestly I have too many to count.
④ How many books do you want to read for this challenge? As many as I can.
Ⓑ The Cleaning
① Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
ⓐ 05/27/14: I have added 2 new bookshelf at this time.
I. Mystery
II. Help Me Decide
ⓑ 04/02/14: I have removed 5 bookshelves that were irrelevant.
I. Literature
II. Around the World
III. Pulitzer Predictions
IV. Banned or Burned
V. Team Read
② Go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves.
ⓐ
③ Delete the ones that no longer interest you.
ⓐ 4/2/14: Have deleted 3 books so far.
Ⓒ The Reading
① I have too many unread books to list them.
② Books I want to read:
ⓐ Fiction
I. ☑ The Time Machine » **** 4/11/14
II. ☑ The Stand » **** 7/7/14
III. ☑ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? » *** 5/23/14
IV. ☑ Wizard's First Rule » 5/18/14
ⓑ Non-Fiction
I. ☑ Dearie » *** 4/10/14
II. ☑ Schindler's List » ***** 6/27/14
III. ☑ Servants' Hall » **** 7/20/14
IV. ☑ Tarka the Otter » *** 7/22/14
Mod
Pre survey:How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 988
How many bookshelves do you have? 83
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 321
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 20
The Cleaning
Shelfs I've deleted:
Alternate Reality
Author Challenge 10
Chicklit
Fantasy
Magical Realism
Mystery
On Hold
Poetry
Princesses
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
Supernatural
Thriller
Travel-Exploration
Young Adult
Shelfs I've created:
ASAP
Books about Books
Borrowed
Coming of Age
Detective Mysteries
Medieval
Murder Mystery
Mystery-Thriller
Myths and Legends
Romantic Fantasy
The Tudors
Unread Owned
YA Dystopian
YA Fantasy
YA Paranormal Romance
YA Romance
YA Science Fiction
After the Clean-up
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 803
How many bookshelves do you have? 86
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 105
Now onto the reading =D
Mod
Count me in please. I did this last year, and already my shelves need cleaned up again.Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1,158
How many bookshelves do you have? 50
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? There are probably about 300 regular books, and Amazon says my Kindle library contains 1690 items.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? I am graduating school in May and getting married in June, so I don't want to be too overzealous with my goal. Let's start with 20.
It is my goal to read 20 books chosen from the following books (more to be added as I go through my shelves to delete what I don't want to read anymore and see which books I own that have been collecting dust:
Dark Lover
Fearless Fourteen
✔Bruja Brouhaha
Matched
Killer Crust
Foretold
✔Neverwhere
Dark Flame
✔The Mephisto Covenant: The Redemption of Ajax
Spell Bound
✔Tempestuous
The Likeness
✔Murder on the Menu
✔Dearly Depotted
The Secret
Changeling
✔No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Dead Beat
✔Torment
A Tale Dark & Grimm
The Things They Carried
✔Bitten
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
✔ The Immortal Rules
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Spell Bound
Witch & Wizard
✔Halo
The Tiger's Wife
Updates:
4/6/14 Deleted 310 books from my TBR shelf. Most of these are because I found an author I wanted to try and massed added everything they wrote before even reading the first book. This was a bad habit I had the last Spring Cleaning Challenge as well.
4/6/14 read Dearly Depotted
4/7/14 Deleted 11 shelves. Deleted 115 more books - more mass adds, but also ones I'm reading the descriptions of and I'm no longer interested in reading.
4/8/14 Deleted 69 books, again reading descriptions and no longer interested in reading.
4/9/14 Deleted another 178 books.
4/10/14 Deleted another 21 books and 4 shelves. I think I'm done deleting books. Will be revisiting shelves later.
4/12/14 Read Bruja Brouhaha
4/14/14 Read Murder on the Menu
4/17/14 Went through my bookshelf at home and added in the books I own that are not on my Goodreads shelves.
4/19/14 Did some actual spring cleaning (as opposed to virtual) and got rid of some books that have been sitting on my shelf more than a decade that I haven't gotten around to reading and probably never will.
4/20/14 Read Torment
4/23/14 Read The Immortal Rules
4/22/14 Read Neverwhere
4/24/14 Read Bitten
4/24/14 Deleted Fifty Shades Darker because after 134 pages I couldn't force myself to read another word.
4/25/14 Read No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
5/12/14 Read Tempestuous
5/21/14 Read The Mephisto Covenant: The Redemption of Ajax
6/4/14 Read Halo
Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge? I read 11 books from my predetermined list, however I read 43 books total during this time.
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list? I owned 21 and 19 were already on our TBR pile.
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many? No I didn't
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many? Yes, 694 books.
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? Yes. I got my TBR down to 549 books and got rid of 15 shelves and numerous physical books that were on my physicalshelves.
Jennifer wrote: "Most of these are because I found an author I wanted to try and massed added everything they wrote before even reading the first book. This was a bad habit I had the last Spring Cleaning Challenge as well."Yes, I've done that, too. I've got to watch that.
I think I've got all my "next-in-series" 'tagged' and my "series-a" etc. 'tagged,' which was a big job.
What I really need to do is get rid of of those "Kindle-freebies" I'll never read.
Lisa Kay wrote: "What I really need to do is get rid of of those "Kindle-freebies" I'll never read. "I have that problem too! I have 1690 books in my Kindle library and most of them are free. I need to clean up my Goodreads shelves and then clean up my Kindle. Yikes! I'm a book hoarder.
Lol! I'm a book hoarder too. I can't pass up a freebie that looks interesting. I can't stand to get rid of them either!
Whoa. 1690! I only have 216, which is too many "Kindle Freebies." Alas, they are hard to pass up, just because I see so many that I did pass up and wished I'd gotten.
I'm in. I really need to clean up my shelves, and read books I already own. Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
3519, most of these I don't own
How many bookshelves do you have? 27
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? no idea I have boxes of them and stacks of more books everywhere, as well as my bookshelves.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
I'll say 50 for now, but hopefully more.
Mod
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How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 2930
How many bookshelves do you have? 67
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 1409 ebooks and 325 print books
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 50
Goal: 26/50
1. A Kiss in Time 3/21
2. Witchcraft 3/22
3. Croak 3/25
4. I Lick My Cheese And Other Notes: From The Frontline Of Flatsharing 3/25
5. A Dyeing Shame 3/26
6. The Faerie Path 3/28
7. Blue Bloods 4/1
8. WitchLove 4/4
9. Cinder 4/6
10. Undercurrent 4/8
11. UnEnchanted 4/10
12. In the Woods 4/19
13. Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth 4/20
14. Revolution World 4/26
15. Sweetheart in High Heels
16. Uglies
17. Fifty Shades of Grey
18. The Benson
19. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse: A Novel
20. Haunted Spouse
21. Oh Holy Ghost
22. Hearts at Stake
23. Three Little Ghosts
24. The 9th Judgment
25. 10th Anniversary
26. Double Shot
edit 4/18/13 Out of my 67 shelves I deleted 6 today.
Out of my 2930 TBR list I deleted 278 books that I am no longer interested in reading. I don't know how some of them even got on the list. I am only on page 15 so I still have a lot of cleaning out to do.
edit 4/21/13 deleted another 639 books from my tbr shelf.
edit 4/23 Removed another 1,174 books from my TBR list.
Edit 4/26 Removed another 19 shelves and cleaned up the ones I have.