2025 Big Book Challenge discussion

Hope nobody minds but I thought it might be a good idea for us to have a folder in case there are some questions.

Thanks Nancy. I just found your question under Brian's thread. I am going to move it here. Good idea!!

Question from Nancy that I moved here --Tim

Ok - I have a question. I am currently reading a book on my I PAD. When I checked at Amazon, they said the hardcover was 400 pages but the paperback was 536. Good Reads also listed 536 as the number of pages 536. For this group, which number would I use?

Bumblesby wrote: "Question from Nancy that I moved here --Tim

Ok - I have a question. I am currently reading a book on my I PAD. When I checked at Amazon, they said the hardcover was 400 pages but the paperback was..."

Hi Nancy. Admins won't check - so do whatever you would like. I say go for the 536 in case there are any snoopers who may check - they would most likely check on Goodreads :)
--Tim

Bumblesby wrote: "Bumblesby wrote: "Question from Nancy that I moved here --Tim

Ok - I have a question. I am currently reading a book on my I PAD. When I checked at Amazon, they said the hardcover was 400 pages but..."

Completely agree with Tim. Go with whatever you feel is right. If I was reading an ebook that had 536 pages but goodreads said the hard cover was, say, 401 pages I would go with the ebook number of pages as that is what version I was reading at the time, but that is just my personal preference...

Best wishes

Debs :-)

Thanks - I will go with the higher number.

Good Morning!
Just curious I know the book has to have 400 pages or more but I have some books really close to 400. for example, 356, 320, 387, 357, etc. would those still be acceptable for the challenge?

Thanks.

Debbie aka Vampire Vixen wrote: "Good Morning!
Just curious I know the book has to have 400 pages or more but I have some books really close to 400. for example, 356, 320, 387, 357, etc. would those still be acceptable for the ..."

Hi Debbie. For this challenge it does have to be 400 pages or longer. Best wishes Debs :-)

ok Thank you :-)

Debbie aka Vampire Vixen wrote: "Good Morning!
Just curious I know the book has to have 400 pages or more but I have some books really close to 400. for example, 356, 320, 387, 357, etc. would those still be acceptable for the ..."

Debra wrote: "Debbie aka Vampire Vixen wrote: "Good Morning!
Just curious I know the book has to have 400 pages or more but I have some books really close to 400. for example, 356, 320, 387, 357, etc. would th..."

Um probably a dumb question. But can I count audiobooks? I am trying to get together how many books I read so far this year and realized most of my "big books" I listened to. :)

Krista wrote: "Um probably a dumb question. But can I count audiobooks? I am trying to get together how many books I read so far this year and realized most of my "big books" I listened to. :)"

I would probably say that if the book is listed on Goodreads as being over 400 pages then go for it.. Even if you listened to it, you are still reading the same amount of content... Best wishes Debs :-)

Debra - not sure where I posted my recent help me post but your directions were just fine and now I see my stats of read books over 400 pages. Many thanks for being a great mod.

Nancy wrote: "Debra - not sure where I posted my recent help me post but your directions were just fine and now I see my stats of read books over 400 pages. Many thanks for being a great mod."

Glad the directions worked! Thanks so much for taking part and your very kind comments... Best wishes Debs :-)

You don't need to thank me for taking part. I love this folder and it is the members who should be thanking you for putting this together.

I hope there is a group like this next year

Patricia wrote: "I hope there is a group like this next year"


Definately will be! Already putting in place plans for 2013. It will be this group but I will change the header to say 2013 and the widget will change to be a fresh one for 2013..... Looking forward to starting a fresh in 2013... :-)

What is a a bind-up of several novels?

Lindy wrote: "What is a a bind-up of several novels?"


Sorry for the delay in replying Lindy, I missed the notification... A bind up is a series of stories in one book. For example, the Morganville Vampires series has many books published individually but you can also get them as one book (which holds books 1, 2 and 3) etc...

The Morganville Vampires, #1-2

I will be logging my 2013 big books here Debs. Thanks for updating the group!

I am having trouble posting my challenge which is to read 32 books this year. I did this last year and have a shelf for 400 pages and over 2012. Now I'm trying to do one for 2013. Can't do it - the message user shelf not found.

Sorry - I just did it. PHEW!!!!

Nancy wrote: "Sorry - I just did it. PHEW!!!!"

Hi Nancy! Glad you got it sorted.. Any probs let me know :-)

Bumblesby wrote: "I will be logging my 2013 big books here Debs. Thanks for updating the group!"

Excellent Tim! Looking forward to seeing how you get on :-)

Just joined this and I'm excited to be able to tackle some of the big books sitting on my shelf! :)

Just joined as well! can't wait to tackle this challenge! just wanted to know if reading a novel with 400 + pages do they have to be stand alones or can they be part of series?

Kristina wrote: "Just joined this and I'm excited to be able to tackle some of the big books sitting on my shelf! :)"

Hi Kristina! Thanks so much for taking part and I look forwarding to hearing how you get on! :-)

Sophie wrote: "Just joined as well! can't wait to tackle this challenge! just wanted to know if reading a novel with 400 + pages do they have to be stand alones or can they be part of series?"

Hi Sophie! Thanks so much for taking part and I look forwarding to hearing how you get on! They can be both, as long as they are over 400 pages that's fine... :-)

Debra wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Just joined as well! can't wait to tackle this challenge! just wanted to know if reading a novel with 400 + pages do they have to be stand alones or can they be part of series?"

Hi ..."

yay thanks for clearing that up debra :)

Ok so I have 5 books added to my shelf but 4 of them arent 400+ pages but combined they make 3 books of 400+ pages.I cant show that on the widget though..how does that work?

Candy wrote: "Ok so I have 5 books added to my shelf but 4 of them arent 400+ pages but combined they make 3 books of 400+ pages.I cant show that on the widget though..how does that work?"

Hi Candy! Unfortunately for this challenge every single book has to be 400+ pages on their own and not combined. Best wishes Debs :-)

I'm pretty sure I posted my response poem "Franzen's 'Freedom' in Free Verse" but I don't see ir here. Did anyone read it?

Ron wrote: "I'm pretty sure I posted my response poem "Franzen's 'Freedom' in Free Verse" but I don't see ir here. Did anyone read it?"

Hi Ron, thanks for your comment. As this is a Big Book Challenge where people challenge themselves to read books over 400+ and log it here, as moderator I removed the post as it did not relate to this group.

Debs

Hi Debra it would be cool to see how many pages had been read by the end of March. Do you think people would be happy to send in their page count for that? Do you think it's a good idea?

In another group we do a page count. One group calls this the Millionaire Challenge while another group class this books iVe read by month. These folders also serve as a list of books read for that year.

Deirdre wrote: "Hi Debra it would be cool to see how many pages had been read by the end of March. Do you think people would be happy to send in their page count for that? Do you think it's a good idea?"


Hi Deidre! Let's See :-)

Ok great!

I am having trouble connecting the books I read for this challenge with the area which counts them. I have included a shelf deemed for this but they aren't included and I now find I have other shelves with similar names. How can I delete these shelves and start over.

Nancy wrote: "I am having trouble connecting the books I read for this challenge with the area which counts them. I have included a shelf deemed for this but they aren't included and I now find I have other she..."

Hi Nancy, if you click on 'books' at the top of Goodreads and look to the left hand side you will see all the shelves in a list. At the top by the heading I believe if you click 'edit shelves' you can go in and delete a shelf you do not need.
Best wishes Debs

Thanks Deb. I was able to delete the shelves I didn't want and added a new a shelf. I haven't checked if it resgistered the two 400 page books I read yet. BTW - I had the same problem last year which somehow was fixed after you wrote with suggestions.

Nancy wrote: "Thanks Deb. I was able to delete the shelves I didn't want and added a new a shelf. I haven't checked if it resgistered the two 400 page books I read yet. BTW - I had the same problem last year ..."

I hope it works, any probs let me know :-)

Debra - something is wrong with my counter. Although I have two shelves listed - read and books over 400 pages for 2013, all of the books I have read so far are being counted as my 400 page book shelf. Any suggestions?

Nancy wrote: "Debra - something is wrong with my counter. Although I have two shelves listed - read and books over 400 pages for 2013, all of the books I have read so far are being counted as my 400 page book s..."

Hi Nancy, If you go into the books and edit your review, go to the section where you can select a shelf and add 'read' shelf so you should now have two shelves allocated to that particular book... Hopet his helps.. :-)

I've done this Debra but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe there's a glitch in my puter.

In the meantime, when I finsh a book I indicate this on the opening main page and it tells me the number of pages for that book. Imagine my surprise when I finished A Week in Winter and it said the book was over 400 pages and the hardcover copy I read said 362. I wonder why there's such a large difference.

Bigger or smaller print or the mise en page.
Nancy wrote: "I've done this Debra but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe there's a glitch in my puter.

In the meantime, when I finsh a book I indicate this on the opening main page and it tells me the number of p..."

Nancy wrote: "I've done this Debra but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe there's a glitch in my puter.

In the meantime, when I finsh a book I indicate this on the opening main page and it tells me the number of p..."

How odd.... I will keep my eye out and if I can find a solution ill come back to yu... How odd re the page numbers.... :-)

Hey, Debra!
I wanted to increase my goal from 12 to 25 books but I made a mess of things....so , I guess I will finish this challenge sooner than I thought. I've read 7 of the original 12 so far.

Esmeralda wrote: "Hey, Debra!
I wanted to increase my goal from 12 to 25 books but I made a mess of things....so , I guess I will finish this challenge sooner than I thought. I've read 7 of the original 12 so far."

Hey! Thanks for taking part :-)

Debra wrote: "Esmeralda wrote: "Hey, Debra!
I wanted to increase my goal from 12 to 25 books but I made a mess of things....so , I guess I will finish this challenge sooner than I thought. I've read 7 of the ori..."

Thank you for suggesting that I should. Do you know how can I increase my goal from 12 to 25 books? I've tried and failed.

Do you plan on doing this next year also?

Nancy wrote: "Do you plan on doing this next year also?"

Yes, definately. I will be sending a message out soon. I will be using this group with the same folders etc but just change the heading so it is 2014