Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Ahhhh.....relief! All signed up and ready to go! Guess I'll go organized my Calibre database a bit so I'm ready for themes!

Sign up! Excited for this one. :)

i want to sign up! how?

Signed up can't wait

Just joined the group and signed up cause I can't seem to resist an awesome challenge.

How do I edit my signup if I already submitted it? I clicked on the sign ups again and it takes me to a blank form. Sorry if I'm missing something terribly obvious...

Katie wrote: "How do I edit my signup if I already submitted it? I clicked on the sign ups again and it takes me to a blank form. Sorry if I'm missing something terribly obvious..."

Katie, can you try looking in your history? When I did that, it took me back to my signup.

I thought it showed an edit option for you all. I did a test of it, and it only shows up as editable when you click submit. It's gone after leaving there, and there's no way to change it in the settings.

So sorry. It's just messed up for those who signed up in the first hour.

I was able to go back and edit my response by going back in my browser history, finding the confirm page, then clicking on "edit your response". Fiddly but possible. :)

Sassafrass wrote: "Katie wrote: "How do I edit my signup if I already submitted it? I clicked on the sign ups again and it takes me to a blank form. Sorry if I'm missing something terribly obvious..."

Katie, can you..."

I tried...it's gone. Oh well. :)

all signed up, this is my first team challenge so I'm super excited!!!

Just confirming- in the signup it asks if you've been a captain before. If I've been a co-captain should I say yes or no?

Greta wrote: "Hurry up to sign up & now wait ;-)

Lol, Nanci! That would have been an emergency!!"

Right! Hope we get on the same team. :)

I've signed up. Good luck everyone.

I've signed up as well! *really excited*

I'm all signed up for the fun. Yay! Have fun everyone :)

I named my bookshelf for this challenge "Gobbledegook" LOL That just came to my head and I thought it was perfect!

i am signed up can't wait

Kazen wrote: "Signed up, woo-hoo! I'm in Japan but I marked my region as Australia because the time zones are nearly the same... and they were nice enough to make me an honorary citizen last challenge. ;)"
We're practically neighbours - I live in the top of the centre of Australia and I think I am and hour ahead of you :)

I signed up! OMG, I am thrilled!

All signed up YAY!!!! Excited for Wobble to start :D

Sally906 wrote: "We're practically neighbours - I live in the top of the centre of Australia and I think I am and hour ahead of you :) "

Howdy, neighbor! I just did a bunch of procrastinating research and it looks like you're in one of the time zones that's a half an hour off from most places, is that right? Japan is one of the few countries that doesn't do daylight savings so I've given up on calculating exact differences... "neighbor with an ocean between" covers it just fine. ;)

eta: And now I notice that some places in Australia forgo DST, too! @_@

That would be great, Nanci :-)

I am extremely excited to participate in this challenge!

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "I thought it showed an edit option for you all. I did a test of it, and it only shows up as editable when you click submit. It's gone after leaving there, and there's no way to change it in the set..."

I wasn't able to edit my original submission. So I hope you won't mind that I just submitted a second entry. This second one says it's a resub. in with my name and includes the comment that I had messaged to the Mod account.

:-)

Finally a way to make me start reading more again! Can't wait!
I hope there are more Europeans here, or at least people who are in similar time zones and who are awake when I am :D

Kazen wrote: "Sally906 wrote: "We're practically neighbours - I live in the top of the centre of Australia and I think I am and hour ahead of you :) "

Howdy, neighbor! I just did a bunch of procrastinating rese..."

Is a nightmare in the summer - the NT doesn't do it neither does Queensland. So effectively most of the east coast is an hour and a half ahead of us except Queensland which is half an hour. South Australia is in our time zone but they do summer time so they're and hour ahead of us and Western Australia don't so they are always and hour and half behind us. Makes it very hard at work ringing various offices!

Sally906, I don't see how any one could keep all that straight! Holy cow. I look forward to slotting somewhere in the middle of all those zones this challenge. :)

Karsyn wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hi Mods, are you ever going to fill in what the L and E stand for on page 1? Here's the L, still empty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Ahem...It was me... beforeI got sick and forgot... sorry :(

Kazen wrote: "
Howdy, neighbor! I just did a bunch of procrastinating research and it looks like you're in one of the time zones that's a half an hour off from most places, is that right? Japan is one of the few countries that doesn't do daylight savings so I've given up on calculating exact differences... "neighbor with an ocean between" covers it just fine. ;)

eta: And now I notice that some places in Australia forgo DST, too! @_@"

I used to live in Hawaii which is one of the few states in the US that doesn't do Daylight Savings Time. It was a hassle to remember when the time difference changed to the rest of the US. In addition, I have family and friends in Europe, where Daylight Savings doesn't start and end on the same dates as in the US...

I signed up. Cant wait for team postings and the challenge to start

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "I thought it showed an edit option for you all. I did a test of it, and it only shows up as editable when you click submit. It's gone after leaving there, and there's no way to change it in the set..."


I just made a note in the comment line "Editing my previous response..." Sorry if this is going to cause a problem, but maybe there won't be that many of them?

Thanks for working so hard to accommodate us all!

we'll take a note to check for duplicate id's. It happens sometimes... Thanks for the warning :)

Sonia wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hi Mods, are you ever going to fill in what the L and E stand for on page 1? Here's the L, still empty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Tis ok, I just didn't realize it was being updated or I would have continued. I sort threads by newest first, so I never see the first few posts again.

Just signed up :) So excited!!

I am so excited for this, can't wait to meet my team mates and get started

Please clarify, so that I can plan my reading...the actual start day is when? The 1st of June?

Cheryl wrote: "Please clarify, so that I can plan my reading...the actual start day is when? The 1st of June?"

The mods said June 17th earlier on in the thread. :)

Cheryl wrote: "Please clarify, so that I can plan my reading...the actual start day is when? The 1st of June?"

June 17th is correct.

Not sure what you mean by planning, but just a reminder ~ it's not a good challenge to have books completely planned out. You'll have to be flexible on what you read, to fit in certain ways (like for Wheel-a-Thon, you'll get a word and have to spell it out as a team, so you'll need books that fit that word).

Sonia wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hi Mods, are you ever going to fill in what the L and E stand for on page 1? Here's the L, still empty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Done :)

I may be totally blind and have missed it, but how long are sign-ups open for?
I am a little worried about the 5 month commitment to a book a week, not that I can read that much, but still... I did TowerTeams IV over here, but this sounds more ridged.
What if I can't one week. Or I go camping and don't have internet. It is over all the months of the summer and most of the fall also. Do you have contingencies for that without a person having to let down there team?

The "Planning" comment is that I have a couple of very long books on my TBR list and those are better to get out of the way before the challenge...unless there are points for the number of pages.

Cheryl wrote: "The "Planning" comment is that I have a couple of very long books on my TBR list and those are better to get out of the way before the challenge...unless there are points for the number of pages."

There are some parts where page numbers will give more points, but Wheelathon isn't one of them and it is up first for 4 weeks so I think get the bigger ones out of the way now, or save them up for something like Battleship which will have differing points for pages (well, the current draft does unless Tea changes her mind!)

Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "I may be totally blind and have missed it, but how long are sign-ups open for?
I am a little worried about the 5 month commitment to a book a week, not that I can read that much, but still... I di..."

This is more of a comitment than our other challenges and I think it really is important that people know it is a book a week and will be challenging over a long period. It is more for the "challenge addicts" rather than social readers, I guess.
Like with all challenges, RL does get in the way, so we will hopefully have reserve players that can fill in gaps if someone has to leave ; otherwise most of us mods won't be playing this one (there is just quite a lot of work behind the scenes so most of us have opted to not play), but it means that if required, we can also step in as players.
Sign ups will stay open even after the challenge has started, so if you want to be a reserve and not a player from the start, you can just wait it out and sign up later

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "I may be totally blind and have missed it, but how long are sign-ups open for?
I am a little worried about the 5 month commitment to a book a week, not that I can read..."

Ok, thanks Karen.
I will keep considering as I close up a few over in AMMP, and see how I feel after that pressure is off.
:-)

Signed up!

We're somewhere in the mid-thirties for # of people signed up -- or, rather, # of people who posted here that they signed up. ;)

Ray (user2637) wrote: "We're somewhere in the mid-thirties for # of people signed up -- or, rather, # of people who posted here that they signed up. ;)"

Seeing that you're interested... I just checked and we have 122 sign-ups at the moment

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hi Mods, are you ever going to fill in what the L and E stand for on page 1? Here's the L, still empty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Done :)

Hooray! Thank you!!!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Seeing that you're interested... I just checked and we have 122 sign-ups at the moment"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!