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Angela's Shelf-A-Thon Challenge
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Shelf-A-Thon Challenge
Mod
One quick thing: the links you have in the post are not working. Can you recheck them? On the first link, I can click on ALL SHELVES, and see the hyperlinks to each one, but I think you were trying to link us to P&P, yeah?
So I guess my first question is:
I can only use ONE book found within the first 5 pages of any SHELF... is that it?
Whoops, I fixed it!! Let me get an example up there so maybe it can be explained better. I was really confused at first so I had a lot of questions.
my link textSo if I use the first 5 pages, here are the shelves I would touch in bold:
2000s
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
-
2008-books
2008-read
2008-reads
2009-books
2009-reads
2009-read
20th-century
abandoned
academic
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-books
adult-fiction
adult-non-fiction
adventure
africa
all
all-time-favorites
already-read
alreadyread
american
american-history
animals
anthology
anthologies
anthropology
architecture
art
audio
audiobook
audiobooks
audio-books
autobiography
biography
biography-memoir
biographies
books
bookclub
book-club
bookcrossing
bookcrossing-com
book-group
bookshelf
books-i-own
books-i-own-to-read
books-i-want
books-owned
books-read-in-2008
books-read-in-2009
books-sent-on
books-to-check-out
borrowed
british
business
chick-lit
chicklit
childhood
childhood-books
childhood-favorites
children
children-books
childrens
children-s
children-s-books
childrens-books
childrens-picture-books
childrens-ya
children-young-adult
childrens-fiction
childrensbooks
childrens-lit
children-s-lit
children-s-literature
christian
christian-fiction
christianfiction
christianity
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comic
comic-books
comics
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
cookbooks
cooking
crafts
crime
crime-fiction
criticism
culture
currently-own
design
didn-t-finish
did-not-finish
do-not-own
drama
e-books
ebook
ebooks
economics
education
england
english
erotica
essays
family
fantasy
fantasy-sci-fi
fantasy-scifi
fantasy-science-fiction
favorite
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favorites
favourites
faves
feminism
fiction
film
finished
fluff
food
for-school
france
friendship
french
fun
funny
general-fiction
generalfiction
german
get-to-read
glbt
graphic
graphic-novel
graphic-novels
graphicnovels
guilty-pleasures
have
have-read
haveread
health
highly-recommended
high-school
historical
historical-fiction
historicalfiction
historical-romance
history
home-library
how-to
humor
humour
horror
indonesian
in-english
in-my-collection
in-my-library
inspirational
i-own
i-own-it
i-own-this
islam
japan
japanese
juvenile
juvenile-fiction
keepers
kids
kid-books
kids-books
kindle
language
library
library-book
library-books
listened-to
lit
literary
literary-fiction
literature
literature-fiction
magic
manga
manga-manhwa
memoir
memoir-biography
memoirs
military
mine
misc
modern-fiction
music
my-books
my-favorites
my-library
mystery
mysteries
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
nancy-pearl-s-book-lust
nature
need-to-buy
need-to-get
never-finished
nonfiction
non-fiction
not-owned
novel
novels
other
on-hold
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-shelf
own
own-it
own-to-read
owned
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
parenting
partially-read
personal-library
philosophy
picture-book
picture-books
picturebooks
photography
plays
poetry
political
politics
psychology
queer
read-2007
read-2008
read-2009
read-as-a-kid
read-in-2007
read-in-2008
read-in-2009
read-for-school
read-more-than-once
read-prior-to-2008
realistic-fiction
research
recently-read
recentlyread
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
religious
re-read
reread
reviewed
romance
romance-erotica-pnr-to-read
self-help
series
school
school-books
science
sciencefiction
science-fiction
science-fiction-fantasy
sci-fi
scifi
sci-fi-and-fantasy
scifi-fantasy
sci-fi-fantasy
scpl
sf
sff
sf-fantasy
short-stories
sociology
speculative-fiction
spiritual
spirituality
sports
status-holding
stories
supernatural
suspense
tbr
teaching
teen
teen-books
teen-fiction
textbooks
theology
theory
thriller
thrillers
to-buy
to-buy-one-day
to-get
to-read-fiction
to-read-interloan-my
to-read-interloan-sd
to-read--one-day-
to-read-nonfiction
to-read-own
to-re-read
to-reread
traded
travel
trt-reviews
unfinished
unsorted
unread
urban-fantasy
vampires
want
want-to-own
want-to-read
war
warehouse
western
wishlist
wish-list
writing
women
ya
ya-fiction
ya-lit
youngadult
young-adult
young-adult-books
young-adult-fiction
youth
So that is 15 shelves for just page 1. I would continue to page 5. If you read a different book and touch 'novels' again you would not count it again. Once it has been touched you are done. You also just ignore the other shelves that are not listed here. So for example, on page one of Pride and Prej. they also have jane-austen and 1001 books, but these are not options.
To answer your question Lori (I hope) your ONE book can be used for the first five pages of popular shelves. Then you would use your next book for the first five pages of the popular shelves, ignoring the ones you have already touched. Does that make sense?
Hi Angela - Sounds like a fun challenge! I'm excited to get started!
I think I understand, and I'm going to join in! :)
Hi Jen-I have done this twice in another group and it is a lot of fun! The good thing is that you do not really have to choose books to fit this challenge. Just hope the book you are reading touches a lot of shelves.
I'll play again, too! It's interesting to see which shelves I hit...a nice reminder that sometimes I need to branch out a little bit with what I read
I always get stuck on the children's shelves because I do not really read them or the manga shelves. I also need to branch out sometimes. I will pick up a popular book and think I am going to touch all kinds of shelves and only get like 5.
Glad to see people are excited about this :)
Oh and welcome back Sarah! Hope you are feeling better :)
Ok Angela - I have been looking at this group for a while but thinking I had too many groups and challenges already, but you sold me. Count me in on the shelf-a-thon. I, like you LOVE this challenge and think it can be done while doing many other challenges. I only wish I had joined this group early enough to work on the summer challenge.
You can still participate in the Summer Challenge and count the books you have already read from June 1st. The seasonal challenges are my favorite!! BTW-This group is great!!
BTW - I plan on updating the excel spreadsheet if anyone wants a copy. I'll probably have it finished by the middle of next week or so.
Thanks Lyn. I do not have excel on my computer.
Ohhh spreadsheet is always welcome!I´ll try to join the challenge lol I´ll do my spreadsheet today if I have time
Mod
Just to warn you guys, this challenge is highly addictive! The good news is, it really encourages you to step outside your box and read from many different genres, including non-fiction and even childrens stuff. It's alot of fun!
Lori wrote: "OK, well, if people are going to get rolling on this, I can start a new folder just for this challenge. This way everyone can create thier own personal thread to track their stuff. Or would you rat..."Create a separate folder or else this thread will be ungodly long.
If you do a different folder, I can track progress by the week. Thanks Lori!!
Yay Angela - You did such a great job tracking for the other group.
This sounds super fun! I think I'm going to hop on board!
Working on updating the spreadsheet, will let you know when it is finished, then you can e-mail me for a copy.
Actually Slayermel did the tracking, but I am looking forward to doing it!!
OK - I currently have 3 or 4 shelves less than last time. Is that correct?? If not - how do I check? How do you come up with the Official List?
I just looked at the popular list and picked the first 350 shelves (excluding to-read and currently-reading). I counted it twice last night and had 350. Maybe I counted wrong :(
It´s hard to copy all the list.. I just finished.Ha.. I´m going to do a 2009 version of this challenge... than I added ONE book and I did 76 shelves with it haha it´s funny... the second book will do 3, I know it will :(
ok this sounds kind of neat but honestly I'm so confused with the 5 page thing on different shelves? Are we suppose to get credit for the whole book we read? We pick from different shelves for each book right? Am I making any sense with my questions?
You get credit for the whole book you read. After you are finished reading the book, you go to the books main page and on the right hand side, it says popular shelves. You click on 'more popular shelves' and it will list all of the shelves that this book is on. The list can be anywhere from just one page of shelves to 100 pages of shelves, but you only count the first 5 pages of shelves. Does that make sense?
I just recounted and came up with 350... Is anyone else coming up with anything different? Lyn be careful looking at the new popular shelves because they may have changed from last night.
oh ok...I think I'm getting it now.
Ya - I wasn't going to look, just need to recheck my list and see what i missed from your list. I'm sure that is the problem.
It took me hours to redo the list and make sure I had 350, so good luck finding that little bugger :)
So Angela we are going by shelves that goodreads has...like for instance I want to read a book on vampires....I would use it from the vampire shelf on goodreads or from your shelf above...and then when I figure out the book I am reading I click on that it will give me other shelves it is on? And I can use up to 5 pages of those other shelves? Sorry if I'm asking so many questions.
All of you must be under 35 and have had formal training on the computer!!!I have absolutely NO IDEA what you are talking about...and this sounds fun, damnit...
I'm not either... LOL... Wait, am I?!?! I never can remember. That's a sign I must be older, right??
I´ll try to explain too.I´ll use the Pride and Prejudice example too.
Let´s say you read the book and want to use it in this challenge... you´ll go to the books popular shelves, it is in the right of tha page, like Angela said, you will clikc "more popular shelves" and you will end up with this screen: http://www.goodreads.com/book/shelves...
Now you can see, in the end of the page, there are more than 228 popular shelves for this book. But for this challenge only the first 5 pages counts.
So you´ll go on checking all the shelves the book is, in this example : classics, fiction, favorites, classic, own etc.
I think it´s easy to print the shelves list like Angela does (The Shelves List is this one in the topic.. the 350 ones lol).
Then, when your list is ready you´ll go check them out. With Pride and Prejudice you´ll be able to check the shelves classic, fiction, favorites, classics... and any other shelf appears until the page 5 of the popular ones.
The thing is, you can only use the shelves in The List, so the shelf jane-austen will be useless.
When you read another book, you´ll do the same process, but now it´s just ignore the shelves you´ve already checked and try to find the other ones, cause the point is to check the 350.
Ie, with only ONE book, checked 76 shelfs... it was a pretty popular book. So now, the second book I´ll do I´ll ignore all the shelves I already checked... which let´s me with 274 shelves to check.
I hope you guys get it, I really hope >.< I can´t explian it in any other way LOL
I get it now Carol...thank you so much for the clarification. This sounds like fun. :~)
I think you did a good job of explaining it Carol. The first time I did it I was so confused!!! I had to ask the mod a few times what she meant. Once you get it, it is very easy but hard to explain via the computer.
Mod
It is fun!!! That is why I really wanted to set it up here :) Thanks Lori and Karen (the creator :)
OK - I found the errors. EUREKA!!!! Our lists now match. Just one thing, though, you included the read shelf, which I thought was the same as the currently-reading and to-read shelf in that it was exempt. It wasn't there the last time. Anyway -let me know if you want to replace it and what with.
FYI - I am leaving for the rest of the day, but--
For those of you who would like a copy of the tracking spreadsheet, send a request e-mail to lsm.meadows@gmail.com and I will send a copy back to you tomorrow or so. That way we won't gum up this thread.
I have a quick question! Pride and Prejudice (our example) is on 4,566-ish shelves. What is the fastest way to determine how many of those match our selected 350? Is there a fast way?Thanks!
Bucket, you would ONLY use the first 5 pages of these shelves.
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I have both Lori (Super Mod) and Karen (the person who created this challenge in her own group) to post this challenge here. It is a lot of fun to see how many shelves you can 'touch'.
Object of the Game: To have read off the most shelves from the official list below.
Start: August 1, 2009 You can start the book on July 31st but you cannot be finished with it until August 1st or after.
End: October 31, 2009
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. For example, Pride & Prejudice is on the top of this shelf:my link text
2. A single book may be found on several shelves however we will only count the 1st page of top shelves for this book. For example, you may find Pride & Prejudice are found on the following shelves:my link text ... however we will only count the first page of listed shelves for this challenge (note: this is to make it easier for everybody as P&P is found on 70 pages of shelves!)
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; just ignore those when you are tracking them.
6. Reporting
a. 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; however
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 others had made a excel spreadsheet.
8. Winning
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, midnight October 31 2009.
So please post your interest in participating in this challenge here
Thanks!!
Here are the shelves:
2000s
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
-
2008-books
2008-read
2008-reads
2009-books
2009-reads
2009-read
20th-century
abandoned
academic
action
action-adventure
adult
adult-books
adult-fiction
adult-non-fiction
adventure
africa
all
all-time-favorites
already-read
alreadyread
american
american-history
animals
anthology
anthologies
anthropology
architecture
art
audio
audiobook
audiobooks
audio-books
autobiography
biography
biography-memoir
biographies
books
bookclub
book-club
bookcrossing
bookcrossing-com
book-group
bookshelf
books-i-own
books-i-own-to-read
books-i-want
books-owned
books-read-in-2008
books-read-in-2009
books-sent-on
books-to-check-out
borrowed
british
business
chick-lit
chicklit
childhood
childhood-books
childhood-favorites
children
children-books
childrens
children-s
children-s-books
childrens-books
childrens-picture-books
childrens-ya
children-young-adult
childrens-fiction
childrensbooks
childrens-lit
children-s-lit
children-s-literature
christian
christian-fiction
christianfiction
christianity
classic
classics
collection
college
comedy
comic
comic-books
comics
contemporary
contemporary-fiction
contemporary-romance
cookbooks
cooking
crafts
crime
crime-fiction
criticism
culture
currently-own
design
didn-t-finish
did-not-finish
do-not-own
drama
e-books
ebook
ebooks
economics
education
england
english
erotica
essays
family
fantasy
fantasy-sci-fi
fantasy-scifi
fantasy-science-fiction
favorite
favorite-authors
favorite-books
favorites
favourites
faves
feminism
fiction
film
finished
fluff
food
for-school
france
friendship
french
fun
funny
general-fiction
generalfiction
german
get-to-read
glbt
graphic
graphic-novel
graphic-novels
graphicnovels
guilty-pleasures
have
have-read
haveread
health
highly-recommended
high-school
historical
historical-fiction
historicalfiction
historical-romance
history
home-library
how-to
humor
humour
horror
indonesian
in-english
in-my-collection
in-my-library
inspirational
i-own
i-own-it
i-own-this
islam
japan
japanese
juvenile
juvenile-fiction
keepers
kids
kid-books
kids-books
kindle
language
library
library-book
library-books
listened-to
lit
literary
literary-fiction
literature
literature-fiction
magic
manga
manga-manhwa
memoir
memoir-biography
memoirs
military
mine
misc
modern-fiction
music
my-books
my-favorites
my-library
mystery
mysteries
mystery-suspense
mystery-thriller
mythology
nancy-pearl-s-book-lust
nature
need-to-buy
need-to-get
never-finished
nonfiction
non-fiction
not-owned
novel
novels
other
on-hold
on-my-bookshelf
on-my-shelf
own
own-it
own-to-read
owned
paperback
paranormal
paranormal-romance
parenting
partially-read
personal-library
philosophy
picture-book
picture-books
picturebooks
photography
plays
poetry
political
politics
psychology
queer
read-2007
read-2008
read-2009
read-as-a-kid
read-in-2007
read-in-2008
read-in-2009
read-for-school
read-more-than-once
read-prior-to-2008
realistic-fiction
research
recently-read
recentlyread
recommended
reference
relationships
religion
religious
re-read
reread
reviewed
romance
romance-erotica-pnr-to-read
self-help
series
school
school-books
science
sciencefiction
science-fiction
science-fiction-fantasy
sci-fi
scifi
sci-fi-and-fantasy
scifi-fantasy
sci-fi-fantasy
scpl
sf
sff
sf-fantasy
short-stories
sociology
speculative-fiction
spiritual
spirituality
sports
status-holding
stories
supernatural
suspense
tbr
teaching
teen
teen-books
teen-fiction
textbooks
theology
theory
thriller
thrillers
to-buy
to-buy-one-day
to-get
to-read-fiction
to-read-interloan-my
to-read-interloan-sd
to-read--one-day-
to-read-nonfiction
to-read-own
to-re-read
to-reread
traded
travel
trt-reviews
unfinished
unsorted
unread
urban-fantasy
vampires
want
want-to-own
want-to-read
war
warehouse
western
wishlist
wish-list
writing
women
ya
ya-fiction
ya-lit
youngadult
young-adult
young-adult-books
young-adult-fiction
youth
Questions, feel free to ask!!