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Off-the shelf challenge 2014?
I'd be game. I have about 50 books in my possession right now, so this would keep me committed to listening to them before (most of) the shiny new ones.
Kristie wrote: "I'd be game. I have about 50 books in my possession right now, so this would keep me committed to listening to them before (most of) the shiny new ones."Exactly I am not saying I will read those exclusively but that I will make a more concerted effort to read them, there is no way I won't still listen to the shiny new ones!
MissSusie wrote: "Hi everyone,I am curious if anyone would be interested in an off the shelf/off the ipod type of challenge for 2014.
Would it be okay with the moderators to start a discussion section for everyo..."
Ha ha ha! Great minds think alike or: an idea whose time has come! :) This is one of my categories for my 2014 challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Count me in. Of course, given the size of my TBR pile, I'll have to commit to a certain number rather than trying to clear the shelf. And--love the term "shiny new books"--I'll be mixing in new and higher-interest ones too.
I agree with starting after the new year. I reserve the right to accumulate a few more books on my shelf before the end of the year. :)
I have one for my paper books, but that works for me, as I tend to read those as I find audio versions for them. I'd set my goal pretty low, though, as I'm barely going to make my goal this year. But maybe I'll finally tackle some of them!
Great! I will see what our dear moderators John & Grumpus say about setting up a section for challenges. And yes it would be starting after the 1st of the year.
Hi folks,This wouldn't start until January 1st, so we can continue discussing things here for a bit until then. We'd like to keep things down to one "2014 Challenges" folder, with individual challenge threads, rather than a folder for each challenge, with a separate thread for each member's individual progress. In other words, folks would chime in on a thread with where they are every so often as "updates" - make sense?
John wrote: "Hi folks,This wouldn't start until January 1st, so we can continue discussing things here for a bit until then. We'd like to keep things down to one "2014 Challenges" folder, with individual chal..."
That sounds good John, thanks!
Wonderful. Looking forward to it!
Would we all do the same challenge, or would we have individual objectives?I'll have to think how I would approach an audiobook challenge. I tend to read my audiobooks in the order in which I acquire them, so I don't have any long forgotten books. It's an entirely different situation with my print books.
Just to see what kind of backlog I have, I went through my Audible Library in reverse order and jotted down the unread books. I had to stop in April 2011 because I already had 77 books... Yikes! Of course, I have a total of 1617 books in My Library and I've read over 250 so far this year, but a commitment to begin removing those older unread books would be a good motivator.I'll be starting with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, which is the oldest unread book in My Library, and going on from there--interspersing newer ones, of course.
It may be that we each have quite a few of the same books because of the daily deals and the $4.99 sale.
I'm sure this could involve buddy reads: I.e. if I have a book I want to get if the shelf, I see if anyone else also wants to reward it with me and get it off their shelf as well.
Reward it with your time and energy - by reading it :)
Jeanie wrote: "Just to see what kind of backlog I have, I went through my Audible Library in reverse order and jotted down the unread books. I had to stop in April 2011 because I already had 77 books... Yikes! ..."That was what brought on this idea I went through and found out I have 80 bought but unread books from audible..Here's the shelf I created!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
In one of my other groups we created a Bucket List of the 12 books that we most wanted to get to in the next year from some of the oldest books on our TBR pile. Then, once we had our bucket lists, we read one book a month from the list for the next year. It worked out well. It wasn't too daunting but motivated us to read those books we have always been trying to get to.
Jan wrote: "In one of my other groups we created a Bucket List of the 12 books that we most wanted to get to in the next year from some of the oldest books on our TBR pile. Then, once we had our bucket lists..."
That's a great idea too!
Oh, I love that idea! Suits my pace too.
John wrote: "Hi folks,This wouldn't start until January 1st, so we can continue discussing things here for a bit until then. We'd like to keep things down to one "2014 Challenges" folder, with individual chal..."
I really like your concept, John. I notice that the challenge that Leslie linked has the same sort of structure. It should work well to keep the main monthly and quarterly threads open for other discussions.
I had already been thinking of how I was going to keep track of my 2014 books and decided I was going to make a new shelf for my 2014 Audio "reads". I like the idea of popping in with a post from time to time with an update of progress.
Jeanie wrote: "to begin removing those older unread books would be a good motivator.I'll be starting with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, which is the oldest unread book in My Library, and going on from there--interspersing newer ones, of course. ..."
Oh, Jeanie - you are missing a great read. The Woman in White is a great story. You really should bump it up and listen to it!
Cherie wrote: "Jeanie wrote: "to begin removing those older unread books would be a good motivator.I'll be starting with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, which is the oldest unread book in My Library, and goi..."
I know it's supposed to be good, but other books just kept taking precedent. But it will be the first book I read in the new year, glad to know I have something so great to kick it off.
Chiming in to add to the kudos for Woman in White! I've done a pretty good job at clearing out my own Audible backlog (library books remain an issue), but the recent credit plus current member sale will be adding a few more onto my To Listen pile.
John wrote: "Chiming in to add to the kudos for Woman in White! I've done a pretty good job at clearing out my own Audible backlog (library books remain an issue), but the recent credit plus current member sa..."
And another great sale so added 2 more books to my TBL pile! Just can't seem to stop myself!
You all inspired me to wade into Wizard, the Biography of Tesla once again. It is interesting, just not compelling after the early years. So much wrangling among the inventors and industrialists.
I can't say I've ever had this problem during my nearly 8 years as an Audible member - - - until now. Like everyone else, I have been taking advantage of the recent spate of great sales. My backlog, albeit smaller than most folks, makes me uncomfortable and fearful that I may have picked up the Audiobook group contagion known as ACD (Audible Compulsive Disorder).Based upon the polls here, nearly 75% of our members have purchased something from Audible in the past 12 months, each spending approximately $207 on audiobooks per year.
I think this remedy offered by Dr. MissSusie may be our best hope for a backlog cure!
Grumpus wrote: "I can't say I've ever had this problem during my nearly 8 years as an Audible member - - - until now. Like everyone else, I have been taking advantage of the recent spate of great sales. My backl..."ACD, LOL! Too bad this diagnosis was defined too late to make it into the DSM5, the diagnostic manual for psychologists and psychiatrists. We'll have to lobby to make it into the revised version ;P
I've kind of cheated in starting the Stegner book now, but I'm slow at listening to novels, so perhaps I'll hold off on actually finishing it until after New Years.
Grumpus wrote: "I can't say I've ever had this problem during my nearly 8 years as an Audible member - - - until now. Like everyone else, I have been taking advantage of the recent spate of great sales. My backl..."I have the same thing even after seeing how many books I still have to listen to I have bought 3 more books in the last 2 days!
MissSusie wrote: "Grumpus wrote: "I can't say I've ever had this problem during my nearly 8 years as an Audible member - - - until now. Like everyone else, I have been taking advantage of the recent spate of great ..."I have ACD, Argh,...two more!
I'm looking at the 50+ books I have lined up, and I'm realizing that I have gotten almost all of them in the past 6 months, with only a few others purchased after that. Yikes. Apparently I have been on a book buying binge this year! Oh well, a challenge will keep me focused on the ones purchased further back.
Patricia wrote: "Jeanie wrote: "Too bad this diagnosis was defined too late to make it into the DSM5..."Oh it's in there....under hoarding!"
LOL! I think that's the case for my paper books as well...
I have a couple dozen paper books that I had been keeping around as designated takeoff/landing reading material, which is now no longer (usually) necessary, although I did have to switch off my audiobook recently for an instrument-guided landing in fog that the FAA hadn't cleared for electronics usage yet.
I created a shelf for audio TBR after reading this thread and I have plenty to keep me going. Count me in too :)
Why keep buying books that you don't plan on listening to? I usually buy my books as needed and listen to them right away. I'm on my 94th title for the year.
Tim wrote: "Why keep buying books that you don't plan on listening to? I usually buy my books as needed and listen to them right away. I'm on my 94th title for the year."I plan to read every title in my Library, but the new books that are released from series I follow leapfrog over older classic titles--they can wait a little longer--and then Audible offers books on sale at such good prices that I know I want to read and prefer to take advantage of the lowest price, and, before you know it, there's a backlog.
This year I've read over 250 books that I hadn't read before and re-read another 100, but I bought nearly 400. That's how I get behind, buying more than I can read. But I know I will get to them all eventually, especially now that I've retired and have even more time to read. This challenge gives me the incentive to go back to those books that kept getting superceded so they won't feel like orphans any more.
When I write the actual numbers it almost makes even me gasp. But it's all audio's fault--I never read this much before Audible.
Tim wrote: "Why keep buying books that you don't plan on listening to? I usually buy my books as needed and listen to them right away. I'm on my 94th title for the year."Like Jeanie, I just like buying them when I get a good deal, since they don't take up any space in my house, and they don't "go bad." I read over 70 audiobooks this year, and I have 50 lined up for 2014. To each their own.
Jeanie wrote: "Tim wrote: "Why keep buying books that you don't plan on listening to? I usually buy my books as needed and listen to them right away. I'm on my 94th title for the year."I plan to read every ti..."
Hear, Hear, Well said!!!
I always wanted my own library and now I have it in spades!13,000 (1,300 audible)books allows me to share with family and pick a book for challenges without buying a new book.
Kindle books and audible add on has made it very reasonable.
My personal success is this library that allows me to travel, get to know people through biographies, learn about history and travel the fantasy routes.
My mood can change daily and the books are there for me.
I am on book 143 and should reach my 150 goal. This wouldn't have happened if I had to go to the library and wait for the book to be available or if I had to pay "retail pricing" for each book.
Shirley wrote: "I always wanted my own library and now I have it in spades!13,000 (1,300 audible)books allows me to share with family and pick a book for challenges without buying a new book.
Kindle books and a..."
I am in awe of your library, and the dedication you've shown in getting all of those books cataloged. Brava!
I would have bought so many duplicates if I didn't catalog religiously.
I "plan" to listen to every audio book I own also. Like others the series books have priority over sale books. I often listen to the whole series before I listen to the new release. If I find a new to me series first book on sale I will buy it to see if I like it. Then if I like it I will start trying to catch up with the series. One of my 2014 goals is to listen to the unread series books in my collection. Which is why I really like the 2014 Off The Shelf Challenge idea.I am already making a list and checking it twice. LOL
Tim wrote: "Why keep buying books that you don't plan on listening to? I usually buy my books as needed and listen to them right away. I'm on my 94th title for the year."I pick up freebies whenever I see them (like the SYNC offerings this summer) - so I acquired more than I could listen to at the time. I do plan to listen to them even if I didn't do so immediately.
I am curious if anyone would be interested in an off the shelf/off the ipod type of challenge for 2014.
Would it be okay with the moderators to start a discussion section for everyone's individual threads?
This challenge would be to help people finally listen to all those books languishing on your ipod or in your audible library that you bought in sales and then new shinier books came along and pushed them down to the bottom. I know when I made a shelf on here with my bought but un-read books there were some I had honestly forgotten I had bought.
I am going to try my best to listen to books I have already bought, but I thought a challenge may help me truly accomplish this!