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Book Shelves Team Challenge
For this team challenge, teams will be reading books for each of the book shelves listed below. Like in team challenges past, you will need to communicate with your team to determine who is reading a book for which shelf so nothing gets missed and you don't spend the week all reading the same shelves. Your team is not expected to read a book for every shelf. Instead, the object is to read as many books as you can for as many shelves as you can.

Rules
1. In order for the book to count for the challenge, the shelf must be listed on the first page of your book's top shelves (i.e. the first 100 shelves).
2. Shelves must match exactly. For example, "to-buy" is not the same as "want-to-buy" and "loved" is not the same as "loved-it."
3. Your team can only read a book once per shelf so you will need to coordinate and communicate to be certain you're not reading over one another. If two team members are reading the same book, each member must choose a different shelf for that book.
4. Books need to be 100+ pages to count. If you're already in the middle of a book before the read-a-thon starts, you can count it for this challenge as long as you have at least 100 pages to go.
5. Have fun! This challenge is about reading more, working together, and having a good time. Lets keep the easy-going, helpful, considerate vibe our group is well known for along with the spirit of competition. :)

This read-a-thon will run from Saturday, December 7 to Sunday, December 15. Moderators will be here all week to read for their teams, answer questions, and clarify any confusion.

If you're not familiar with where to find the book shelves for your Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ books, there is a link to "top shelves" listed below the genres on the right column of the page. See the screenshots below:


Click "...More"


Click "...show all"

SHELVES

Personal Shelves
2024-Reading-Challenge
Book-of-the-Month
Book-Club
Books-I-Own
Cover-Love
Currently-Reading
Did-Not-Finish
Have
Maybe
Need
Reviewed
Series
Stand-Alone
TBR
To-Buy
Want
Wishlist

Rating Shelves
1-Star
2-Stars
3-Stars
4-Stars
5-Stars
Favorite
Favorite-Authors
Hated
Loved
Must-Read

Genre Shelves
Adventure
Biography
Chick-Lit
Contemporary
Cozy-Mystery
Family
Fantasy
Fiction
Ghost-Story
Gothic
Graphic-Novel
Historical
Horror
Humor
Memoir
Mystery
Mythology
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Romance
Sci-Fi
True-Crime
Western
Young Adult

Source/Format Shelves
ARC
Audio
Borrowed
Bought
eBook
Kindle-Unlimited
Library
Own
Paperback

Location Shelves
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North-America
South-America
China
France
Mexico
Thailand
United-Kingdom
United-States

Year Shelves
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Got a particularly difficult book tag? Use a wild card to knock out that shelf! You earn a wild card for every 1500 pages or 15 hours of audio!

THE TEAMS


TEAM PENGUIN
Captain: Emily B
Captain: Kendra
Alison
Joyce
Sheyanne
Traci
Chrissy
Kellie Lyn
Sheena
Charlie


TEAM ARCTIC FOX
Captain: Andrea
Captain: Katherine
Tanu
Jillian
LoriLovesBooks
Camilla
Tamara
Irene
Tammy
Roxana


TEAM POLAR BEAR
Captain: Ciara
Captain: Erica
Allie
Jen K
Caitie
C
Samantha
Rachel
Fee
JessicaMHR


TEAM SNOW LEOPARD
Captain: Nancy
Captain: Robin P
Trish
Bea
J
Bec
Emma R
Sophia
JennH
Elizabeth

How to Use the Spreadsheet:

The top section is for pages read. You would only include pages you've read since you woke up this morning.

The second section is for audio listened to. I typically round to the nearest quarter hour, so 2 hours and 40 minutes, I'd put 2.75 (knowing I'd eventually make up those 5 minutes the next day). I just personally prefer to have the minutes rounded like that for my own tracking (and my not-so-math brain).

Also, audio would be minutes of the book you read, not minutes you actually listened. If you listened to 10 minutes of the book on 2x speed, you would log 10 minutes listened, not 5 minutes. I hope that makes sense.

Once you finish the book, you place it under your column next to the prompt you are marking it for, and then you'd click the check box at the end of the row. These are flexible and can be adjusted as needed, but it's a good way to get a visual of how you are doing in the challenge.

Question: will the readathon times be in our local time zone?

Edit: grammar

Yes, the challenge begins when you wake up on Saturday morning and ends when you go to sleep Sunday night!

Will there be wildcards for pages/audio hours?

Yes! You can see them on the spreadsheet, sorry I didn't mention them here.

Thank you!

Can you remind me of the rules on graphic novels/comics? Is it still a 200-page requirement?

Yes, anything with illustrations is a 200 page requirement here!

Re Exact shelf name…are plural/not plural accepted?
The possible exception is related to star rating prompt�

3 star vs 3 stars

What is the difference between the Own shelf in personal and the Own shelf in Source?

The goal is to have the exact same shelf name, Tammie, so no to the plural/not plural.

There is... no difference lol. Just an oversight on my part. I will remove one of them from the list to minimize confusion.

What happens if the book is so recently published, or so relatively obscure, that it doesn't have "...more" on the front page, let alone all shelves?

Does that mean it can't be used? Or can you use the MPGs as shelves?

Emily wrote: "There is... no difference lol. Just an oversight on my part. I will remove one of them from the list to minim..."

Also, I couldn't tell from your answer to Tammie. Can "five stars" be used for "5 stars?

I’m confused by the SS…is the top section on completed tab to put page numbers?

If we read audio do we put minutes or hours?

Do we record both pages and hours or just one or the other?

If we finished a portion this morning…I read a few pages yesterday, do I record all pages or just the pages I read today?

Tami, what I do for audio hours say I read 2 hours and 40 minutes I would log it as 2.66.

You can count both audio and page count.

Just pages/audio read starting on Saturday count for the read-a-thon.

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Thanks for the response Jillian!

Just to make sure it's clear:

The top section is for pages read. You would only include pages you've read since you woke up this morning.

The second section is for audio listened to. I typically round to the nearest quarter hour, so 2 hours and 40 minutes, I'd put 2.75 (knowing I'd eventually make up those 5 minutes the next day). I just personally prefer to have the minutes rounded like that for my own tracking (and my not-so-math brain).

Also, audio would be minutes of the book you read, not minutes you actually listened. If you listened to 10 minutes of the book on 2x speed, you would log 10 minutes listened, not 5 minutes. I hope that makes sense.

Once you finish the book, you place it under your column next to the prompt you are marking it for, and then you'd click the check box at the end of the row. These are flexible and can be adjusted as needed, but it's a good way to get a visual of how you are doing in the challenge.

Any chance I can get added to a team? I'm in the central US time zone.

Elizabeth wrote: "Any chance I can get added to a team? I'm in the central US time zone."

Yes, my team is Snow Leopards and we can use another member.
I will inform Emily. Please feel free to go to our thread and welcome!

Is there a certain way to mark a prompt as using a wildcard? I'm not spreadsheet savvy so I was not sure how to show on the counter one was used. (I just tested a random prompt with typing wildcard/clicking the check mark to see if it changed the counter and it didn't so I removed the word wildcard/checkmark).

No, I hadn't worked that out yet. If you want to use one, I would just put WILD CARD on the prompt and mark the checkbox, but I'll tinker with the spreadsheets in the morning to see if there's an easy way to show them used.

On the spreadsheet, what are the year shelves?

Those would be tags people used to designate years. For example, I have a shelf for every year through 2017 that contains the books I read each year. It's not necessarily publication year, but if it's in the top 100 tags, you can use it.

Jillian (and everyone else), I updated the spreadsheet to reflect Wild Cards, as well as total books read!

Emily wrote: "Those would be tags people used to designate years. For example, I have a shelf for every year through 2017 that contains the books I read each year. It's not necessarily publication year, but if i..."

Got it! Thanks.

So, I am reading a ebook online through wattpad. Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ gives me the total number of pages but wattpad itself does not give me individual pages, just chapters as I am reading. How do I handle this in the daily tracking? Or can I just input the total when/if I can manage to finish the book before the end of the readathon?

Up to you, JennH! If you want to look at how many pages each chapter would be on average (so 300 page book with 10 chapters would be 30 pages each), you could log it that way, or you can wait until you're finished with it to log all of the pages.

I have the same issues with an ARC I'm reading but it does give me a percentage, so I'm just multiplying the percentage I read times the total number of pages of the book (according to GR).

Emily wrote: "Up to you, JennH! If you want to look at how many pages each chapter would be on average (so 300 page book with 10 chapters would be 30 pages each), you could log it that way, or you can wait until..."

Thank you, Emily! I think I'll wait. I'm also glad I'm not the only one with this issue.

Trish wrote: "What happens if the book is so recently published, or so relatively obscure, that it doesn't have "...more" on the front page, let alone all shelves?

Does that mean it can't be used? Or can you use the MPGs as shelves?..."

I would like to know the answer to this question too. I'm reading an ARC which only has 5 other review so far so doesn't have a genres shelf. I'm assuming it can't be used as a book read.

In those cases, I'd probably allow any genres on the main page to count as well. Can y'all send an example?

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This is the graphic audio version and there are only 5 genre shelves.

In that case, I would switch to the main page edition of the book (so switch to the kindle or paperback version) and use that instead.

If none of the editions have more than a handful of shelves, you can just use what's there, but I think it's fine to look for tags on different editions of the same book (reading is reading!)

Emily wrote: "In those cases, I'd probably allow any genres on the main page to count as well. Can y'all send an example?"

I just finished All Downhill From Here: A forced proximity, small town romcom which is too new (not yet published and only 5 reviews) so no genres, so I'm assuming I can't use any for this.
But with After Life can I use young adult, contemporary or fiction?

Emily wrote: "In those cases, I'd probably allow any genres on the main page to count as well. Can y'all send an example?"

For me, the ones in question are:

Death Through a Dark Green Glass, which only has Mystery and Cozy Mystery on the main book page and only two editions (and by now, Team Snow Leopard has filled those anyway)
and The Christmas Clause which has Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Christmas, Fiction, Romance, Holiday but no "more", and also only has two editions.

Yea, I think those books will either be their main page genres or just for wild card reading. You may be able to move the other books in your group around to accommodate those main page genres.

Cheers

Thanks Emily.

I have noticed that the genres listed on the Main Page are the top genres from the list of shelves. So it makes since that they can be used.

I also have read a book with only 3 genres on the main page and no list of shelves.

Hi, do DNFs count as part of our tracked reading? For example if I listened to 20 mins of an audiobook but didn't finish the book, would I still enter it in my totals for the day? Cheers.

Yes definitely! Pages read and audio listened count, even if the book is not completed.

If I read something that is less than 100 pages does that still count towards pages read?

Yes, every page you read counts as pages read. You just can't count a book as completed if it wasn't at least 100 pages long (or 200 pages, if it's a graphic novel or poetry).

Thanks!