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I'm in! Been thinking of trying to track this information anyway. How fun to do it as part of a challenge. :-)2018 Striving for Check/Book Balance Challenge
Total books consumed: 59
Total books read: 28.5
Total books listened: 37.5
(using .5 for books read between audio & ebook via whispersync)
Already Owned & Read: 11.5 (view spoiler)
Already Owned & Listened: 19.5 (view spoiler)
Library (or Web) Borrowed & Read: 13(view spoiler)
Library Borrowed & Listened: 7(view spoiler)
Purchased & Read: 4 (view spoiler)
Purchased & Listened: 14 (view spoiler)
Scale Status:
"free" vs. $$
(Owned+Library)\Purchased
Total=(29+19)\18
Read=(11.5+13)\4
Listened=(19.5+7)\14
Acquired vs. Borrowed
(Owned+Purchased)\Library
[Total=(29+18)\19]
[Read=(11.5+4)\13]
[Listened=(19.5+14)\7]
ladymurmur wrote: "Been thinking of trying to track this information anyway. How fun to do it as part of a challenge. :-)"Yay! Glad it'll help with something you'd wanted to track anyway :D
2018 Striving for Check/Book Balance ChallengeDuration: 1 Dec - 31 Jan
AS OF 31 July
Total books read: 293
Purchased & Read: 96 books
Owned & Read: 47 books
Free: 150 Books
Kindle Unlimited Borrowed & Read: 46
Library Borrowed & Read: 53
NetGalley or Author ARCs Received & Read: 51
2018 Striving for Check/Book Balance ChallengeDuration 1/1/18-12/31/18
Total books read: 387
Owned & Read: 97
Purchased & Read: 175
Received & Read: 115
Total Acquired & Read: 290
Scale Status: 97/290
Striving for Check/Book Balance ChallengeDuration: 1/1/18-12/31/18
Total books read: 186
Scale Status: 115\71
Owned & Read: 115
Purchased & Read: 71
Striving for Check/Book Balance [2018]
January - December 2018
My Striving for Check/Book Balance Challenge (msg 9)
🌸Scale Status: 302 Owned / 59 Purchased
🌸Scale Status: 302 Owned / 59 Received
🌸Scale Status: 302 Owned / 118 Acquired
December
🌸Total books read: 39
🌸Owned & Read: 20
🌸Purchased & Read: 8
🌸Received & Read: 11
🌸Total Acquired & Read: 19
Previous Months
(view spoiler)
2018 Striving for Check/Book Balance ChallengeTotal books read: 5
On TBR before 2018: 1448 books (But I definitely don't own them all)
On TBR at end of 2018:
Purchased in 2018 & Read: 2
Owned (before 2018) & Read: 4
Scale Status: Purchased / Owned 2\4
If equal use: #|#
If tipped use: #\# or #/# <--to reflect which way your scale is leaning
Silly question.Scale Status: This part will vary depending on your #s.
If equal use: #|#
If tipped use: #\# or #/# <--to reflect which way your scale is leaning
Which tip is which? If I wanted to say that I was reading more owned books than purchased books, which slash do I use?
I think it would “tip” closer toward the higher number because it’s “heavier”. So, if you’re reading more purchased than owned, your scale would tip like this:23/50
But, everyone does it differently, so you can do it whichever way makes most sense to you. If you show your numbers (purchased and read vs. owned and read) it won’t really matter because everyone can see how ya fell for the year. Make sense?
January is off to a good start.Total books read: 19
Purchased & Read: 3
Owned & Read: 16
Scale Status: purchased(3)/owned(16)
Looks like a real good start, Sam :)
Steph wrote: "Looks like a real good start, Sam :)"It helps that I own so many books I haven't read :)
SOS: Serious Overload of SeriesStriving for Check/Book Balance [2018]
Duration: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2018
Progress: 17
Number Owned = 14
Number New = 3
Think you can 'balance' your book purchases with the money saved from reading books in your existing TBR stack?
No math needed. Instead, let's tally the number of books we read this year ~ Books purchased & read v. Books owned & read in 2018. *Feel free to break up your owned into groups including library borrows and eFreebies. Or, throw those into a separate category for add'l tracking.
How will your scales compare to those in previous years?
Goal: By the end of 2018, your 'owned/read' stack should be larger or equal to your 'purchased/read' stack. If so, challenge completed successfully. If not, well, there's always next year! ;)
Note: For this challenge, "owned" books include those purchased no later than 31 Dec 2017. If you pre-ordered AND paid for a book prior to the end of year, but received it (by post) after 1/1/2018, it counts as 'owned', not 'purchased' in 2018.
Additionally, members are welcome to include ANY books (even those outside of the PNR/UF genre), if they'd like to get an accurate total for the year; that is totally up to each participant. Therefore, all formats are allowed; re-reads are allowed (and count as an 'owned' read).
Post Layout: In an attempt to keep things organized for my OCDemoness, let's all follow the same layout for our master post. Please cut & paste the template below and update it throughout the year.
2018 Striving for Check/Book Balance ChallengeTotal books read: #
Purchased & Read: #
(view spoiler)
Owned & Read: #
(view spoiler)
Members who join are welcome (and encouraged) to post as many daily/monthly/quarterly updates they'd like to share how they are doing throughout the year. Feel free to share those updates in any format you'd like, just remember to update your master list periodically as well.
For those adventurous types: If you'd make the challenge more challenging, you can guesstimate how many books you'll read (buy v. own) and/or set a goal for yourself. If you do, please mention it in your master post.
I'm finding as the months progress, my number of purchases/acquisitions each month going up some.
I find it ironic that I my purchases vs freebies is equal. But I still owned more than I acquired, so that is a good thing!!
Well done everyone who attempted this. I'm not game, I seem to acquire a lot more even though I own a lot already :)
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Think you can 'balance' your book purchases with the money saved from reading books in your existing TBR stack?
No math needed. Instead, let's tally the number of books we read this year ~ Books purchased & read v. Books owned & read in 2018. *Feel free to break up your owned into groups including library borrows and eFreebies. Or, throw those into a separate category for add'l tracking.
How will your scales compare to those in previous years?
Goal: By the end of 2018, your 'owned/read' stack should be larger or equal to your 'purchased/read' stack. If so, challenge completed successfully. If not, well, there's always next year! ;)
Note: For this challenge, "owned" books include those purchased no later than 31 Dec 2017. If you pre-ordered AND paid for a book prior to the end of year, but received it (by post) after 1/1/2018, it counts as 'owned', not 'purchased' in 2018.
Additionally, members are welcome to include ANY books (even those outside of the PNR/UF genre), if they'd like to get an accurate total for the year; that is totally up to each participant. Therefore, all formats are allowed; re-reads are allowed (and count as an 'owned' read).
Duration: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2018
Post Layout: In an attempt to keep things organized for my OCDemoness, let's all follow the same layout for our master post. Please cut & paste the template below and update it throughout the year.
Members who join are welcome (and encouraged) to post as many daily/monthly/quarterly updates they'd like to share how they are doing throughout the year. Feel free to share those updates in any format you'd like, just remember to update your master list periodically as well.
For those adventurous types: If you'd make the challenge more challenging, you can guesstimate how many books you'll read (buy v. own) and/or set a goal for yourself. If you do, please mention it in your master post.