Page Number Challenge

[Traci]

I thought it might be interesting to count page numbers and number of books read in 2012. With all the monster tome book stoppers in fantasy it might be a more accurate way to judge how much reading we do in a year.

Anyone want to join?

[Traci]

Traci's Challenge:

January: 7, 863
February:

[Haydensdad]

Yes I'll join. I chose 100 books as my challenge this year but as we are only 3 weeks in and I just finished my first book pages would be good. Most of the books I have been reading in the last year or so are large tomes so 100 books may be unattainable.

[Anne]

To be consistent with my other challenges, I should end up around 40,000 pages. I read about 34,000 or 35,000 last year (my total on Goodreads is off because I didn't join until March and because I started several books that I didn't finish). My goal for this year doesn't seem too unrealistic, but you never know when life will get in the way.

[Tracy]

That sounds good to me as well.

[Haydensdad]

I hear you, my best reading time is early weekend mornings. However somedays my 5 year old decides to cut into it. Evenings seem to be so hectic with suppers to cook, homework to do(he is learning to read now!!!) and the next day to get ready for. Reading time seems to be a few pages before my eyes lose focus and the alarm goes off at 5:30.

[Traci]

Cool.
I have no idea how many pages I read in a week let alone a year so I really don't know how much to "pledge". Just going to start counting and see what I end up with.
Since the first I have been keeping a reading diary and writing how much I read on that day.
At the end of the month I will total it up and post it in my #2 post. By using the edit option.
Feel free to use whatever option you'd like to.

[John]

I've read 910 pages so far this month :)

[Haydensdad]

So far this month 1156 pages read.

[John]

Last year, I read 20,831 pages I'm hoping to double that this year. This means I should be reading about 3500 pages per month. Not looking good so far though haha.

January: 1432 pages
February: 1464 pages

[John]

March: 2722 pages

Definitely an improvement, but still not 3500 :(

[Tracy]

January : 5181 pages, 18 books
February : 5039 pages, 19 books
March : 4537 pages, 14 books
April: 4988 pages, 15 books
May: 5640 pages, 14 books
June: 5734 pages, 19 books
July: 5953 pages, 17 books
August: 5345 pages, 18 books
September: 6110 pages, 18 books
October: 5825 pages, 15 books
November: 4162 pages, 14 books
December:

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[Haydensdad]

total so far this year 8488 pages read- 14 books read 86 to go to meet my challenge of 100 ooohhh so daunting.

[Pauline]

So far, 13,312 pages read. This is an interesting way to keep track of things :D

[John]

April: 2602 pages

[John]

May: 3062 pages

[John]

June: 3683 pages

[Anne]

Somehow I've read 51 books but only around 17,000 pages. My average number of pages per book is normally much higher than that.

[Dave]

At the end of June I'm at 33 books and 11718 pages.

My target for the year is 60 books

[Tracy]

Anne wrote: "Somehow I've read 51 books but only around 17,000 pages. My average number of pages per book is normally much higher than that."

Are you using the page counter from GR Anne? I'm not real convinced that it's accurate. I count them myself and you have to watch which edition of the book you choose because hardbacks, paperbacks and ereaders have different amounts.

[Tracy]

Dave wrote: "At the end of June I'm at 33 books and 11718 pages.

My target for the year is 60 books"

Well Dave it looks like you are ahead of schedule.

[Dave]

Tracy wrote: "Dave wrote: "At the end of June I'm at 33 books and 11718 pages.

My target for the year is 60 books"

Well Dave it looks like you are ahead of schedule."

Yep about 3 books ahead at the moment. I've been reading a few short books recently (mostly Sherlock Holmes and dr who novels) which have helped get the numbers if not the pages up quick.

[Anne]

Tracy wrote: "Anne wrote: "Somehow I've read 51 books but only around 17,000 pages. My average number of pages per book is normally much higher than that."

Are you using the page counter from GR Anne? I'm no..."

I have been using the one on Goodreads, but I do try to make sure I selected an edition with the right number of pages. I'll have to take a look that I didn't miss any. I've been reading several very long books this year, so I've also been reading some more "fluff" to give myself breaks. That might be why the total looks weird. My total is going to jump dramatically when I finish some of the books I'm working on right now: A Game of Thrones, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Autobiography, Vol 1, The Origin of Species, and Anna Karenina (obviously I have eclectic taste).

[Tracy]

Derrick wrote: "I've given up keeping track of pages because I read mostly ebooks and it seems that half the ebook editions here on GR have the pages as 0.

And I'm not going to manually keep track, sigh..."

Derrick, when I read an ebook I choose the hardback edition. It's stupid that the ebook aren't page numbered because they obviously have pages they are just electronic.

[Tracy]

Bummer Derrick

[John]

July: 3495 pages, 5 books
Total: 18460 pages, 31 books

[Bill]

I'm a slow reader, esp when reading good books. So far this year:

44 books
13,872 pages

Not counting books that are eBooks only. I don't read many of these. One cannot give them page numbers, but could use their size in words or kilobytes.

[John]

August: 2123 pages, 5 books
Total: 20583 pages, 36 books