Mount TBR Challenge 2024 discussion
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Well, I just found this post and have already started climbing Mt. Wycheproof! Seems I am doing things backwards, doesn't it?"All books from lower mountains carry over towards the next peak." Does that mean that my 6 books for Mt. Wycheproof reduce the number I will read for Pike's Peak to 6 rather than 12? If so, I can see me continuing to do this series of challenges more quickly.
Also, I had made a decision (before I knew the rules) of keeping my first book when I realized that I did not own it because it was one of the older ones on my TBR...but it was a library book. So I will replace it with another book. And, from the rules, it looks like I can replace it with something else I owned and read since January 1, right?
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Bev wrote: "Yes, those six books count towards all future mountains."Thanks, Bev. And, I didn't find another owned book read during the Jan to Feb time frame, so I will have to figure out another book to add to the list.
Do Kindle and Audible books count? I will be traveling overseas for about 6 weeks and those will be my reading sources.
Bea wrote: "Do Kindle and Audible books count? I will be traveling overseas for about 6 weeks and those will be my reading sources."If you own them from before January of this year, a definite yes.
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Thanks for jumping in with an answer, Pamela.
As Pamela notes--if you owned them on Kindle or Audible pre-January, then they definitely count. Also--if you owned the book in hard copy pre-January, but want to use Kindle or Audible while you travel, then that is okay too. As long as you own any copy before January, it doesn't matter what version you actually read.
There are some reviews, linked in September, about tarot and oracle card decks. It is a category allowed for the challenge?
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Alexis: I am not sure what you are referring to. There are no categories tied to the Mount TBR Challenge. It's all about how many books you read from your owned TBR stacks.
I was just asking, no need to gaslight me. It's the fifth year I am participating in this challenge, I know how it works, but as you can see in the definition "tarot cards" and "oracle card decks" are not books, even if they come with a small guidebook to help you with the interpretation of the cards. You can easily find all the reviews I am referring to in the first page of the September post.
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Alexis: I did not mean to gaslight you and I'm sorry for making you feel that I am. I am truly not understanding what you are referring to. You say I can "easily find all the reviews in the first page of the September post." Whose/What post? Could you possibly give me a link to follow because I honestly don't know what you mean.
I've gone back to the first few digests of posts from September and I'm not seeing any references to tarot cards or oracle card decks.
Mt. Wycheproof: 6 books from your TBR pile/s (for those who would like to just get a taste of climbing OR who only accumulate small stashes of books)
Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancounver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro*: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s (*aka Cerro El Toro in South America)
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s
The Rules:
*To choose a level, open a topic under one of the challenge level folders and name your climb. You will also need to post a first comment to make your topic appear on the list. If you decide to climb higher, just open a new topic in the new level's folder.
*Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. You are welcome to voyage further and conquer taller mountains after your commitment is met. All books from lower mountains carry over towards the next peak.
*Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2024
*You may sign up at any time--no matter when you see this challenge. All qualifying books read after January 1st count.
*Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2024--items requested or ordered prior to January 1, may count even if they arrive in the new year. No library books~. If you're looking for a library book challenge or one that counts books on your non-owned TBR list, then please see Mount TBR's sister challenge: the Virtual Mount TBR Challenge (link will be posted in the thread when available).
~The ONLY exception to the library rule: If you own the book in any form and have a reason to check out a version from the library instead, then you may count it. For example--if you own a hard copy, but are planning on taking a trip where listening to the audio version would be a great way to knock out a book while you drive, then by all means check out the audio version and have a wonderful trip! Please check with me if you have questions.
*Rules for Rereads: Any reread may count, regardless of how long you've owned it, provided you have not counted it for a previous Mount TBR Challenge.
*There is no minimum page number for books read. If it was sold individually as a book, then it counts. Children's books (if owned by you, count. ARCs also count. Graphic novels count.
*Audiobooks and E-books may count provided they are yours prior to January 1.
*You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided you had 50% or more of the book left to finish when January 1 rolled around. I will trust you all on that. The only exception is if you have participated in Mount TBR in 2023 and are unable to finish the book in time for the final Check-in Post. Then--if you finish the book post-January 1, you may count it as your first step of the new challenge.
*You may count "Did Not Finish" books provided they meet your own standard for such things, you do not plan to ever finish it, and you move it off your mountain [give it away, sell it, remove from e-resources, etc.]. For example, my personal rule (unless it's a very short book) is to give it 100 pages. If I decide I just can't finish it and won't ever, then off the mountain it goes and I count it as a victory--the stack is smaller!
*Books may be used to count for other challenges as well.
*Feel free to submit your list in advance or to tally them as you climb.
*** Anthologies which contain more than one full-length book may count for the number of books included in the edition--provided that you read all books included AND that the books were published individually at some point. For instance, I own a large number of 3-in-1 Detective club editions. Those editions would count as three separate entries on Mount TBR. Occasionally, publishers put together editions of "previously unpublished works." Those editions would only count as one entry if those works have not been published separately at any time.