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Great lists! This is going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait!
Sounds fantastic! Makes me want to complete the whole thing myself. :D
Lisa wrote: "Sounds fantastic! Makes me want to complete the whole thing myself. :D"Haha, yes. But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!
Leni wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Sounds fantastic! Makes me want to complete the whole thing myself. :D"Haha, yes. But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"
Perhaps it could turn into a year long readathon? ;)
Leni wrote: "But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"The point of this hunt is not to solo anything, it is teamwork, we all pitch in.
Kathryn CA wrote: "Let us know if you have any questions"
What's with the numbers? The 50 countries is a given, but how many books in other categories are supposed to be read?
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Iluzija wrote: "Leni wrote: "But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"The point of this hunt is not to solo anything, it is teamwork, we all pitch in.
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Yes, I am aware. :)
dude what a phenomenal idea. I hope that we start this on the first readathon and see how far we can get by the second readathon. that's six months of books.
Have you decided how many of each category our goals are?
Iluzija wrote: "Leni wrote: "But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"The point of this hunt is not to solo anything, it is teamwork, we all pitch in.
Kathryn CA wrote: "Le..."
We are still trying to decide. If you have any suggestions, we are open to it. We aren't sure how many people will actually be participating so we don't want to set goals too high. But we don't want to set them too low.
Avid Reader and Geek Girl wrote: "Where do we track?"Gabby and I will be opening threads for each task here in this topic heading thing. So after you finish a book, you just come and check it in on the categories it fits under.
Kathryn CA wrote: "Iluzija wrote: "Leni wrote: "But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"The point of this hunt is not to solo anything, it is teamwork, we all pitch in.
Kathr..."
What's the current signed up tally?
Elyse wrote: "Kathryn CA wrote: "Iluzija wrote: "Leni wrote: "But the 50 countries and 50 US states might be a bit difficult to solo in 24h!"The point of this hunt is not to solo anything, it is teamwork, we a..."
I need to talk to Andi to get exact numbers. Last time it was around 2,000. But a lot of people don't come over here to goodreads. I will be making a post on the main website telling them about our scavenger hunt though.
Kathryn CA wrote: "I need to talk to Andi to get exact numbers. Last time it was around 2,000. But a lot of people don't come over here to goodreads. I will be making a post on the main website telling them about our scavenger hunt though..."Oh boy they're missing so much by not checking in here! :)
Elyse wrote: "Kathryn CA wrote: "I need to talk to Andi to get exact numbers. Last time it was around 2,000. But a lot of people don't come over here to goodreads. I will be making a post on the main website tel..."Seriously. If only everyone knew how cool and fun we are...
Anything we *start* to read will count for the categories? We don't have to complete them for them to count?
Elyse wrote: "Anything we *start* to read will count for the categories? We don't have to complete them for them to count?"Good question... Ummm, let's say that is only true for books that you are planning on never finishing or books you won't finish because of time restraints during the readathon. Otherwise, theoretically, you could just start and stop 50 books to count.
can we count the books we have read since the beginning of the readathon challenges?
Kathryn CA wrote: "we don't want to set goals too high. But we don't want to set them too low"How about having more marks we can pass?
Something like every [50/insert number here] books... That way we can complete it only once or many times over, since the goal is not too high, but has no limit, so it is not immediately finished when you reach it.
One of our goals can be to finish the first mark of every category.
We can also have achievements for getting 5/10/more than 15 categories with the same book (5 should be easy, alphabet title [1] and author[2], country/state [3], rainbow color [4], +any one of the rest of the categories). These can be fixed to something like 300/100/30 participants.
... Just brainstorming here :D
Also, I don't know your plans, but I think it would be great if you would edit the main post in the countries list to include countries visited (same with letters) so people can write as much as they want and socialize in the comments and it would still be easy to find which countries were visited, useful for people looking to help the category by picking a book from the part of the world that was not yet chosen.I see 2 options here, one is to have a full list of countries and just add marks next to the visited ones (ideal for alphabet), with the counter at the bottom saying how many total countries have been visited. The other one is to add countries as they are visited, numbered at the beginning, again with marks at the end of the line.
Example:
1. Germany (III)
2. France (II)
3. Japan (IIIII)
...
Kathryn CA wrote: "Good question... Ummm, let's say that is only true for books that you are planning on never finishing or books you won't finish because of time restraints during the readathon. Otherwise, theoretically, you could just start and stop 50 books to count..."Should you/can you set a page number to reach before it's allowed to count? I know a lot of us are mood readers, especially for Readathons. I'm not intentionally going to start a ton of books just to fill categories but if I read 25 or 50 pages and then throw it aside for something better suited, I should still be able to count it. :)
Elyse wrote: "Should you/can you set a page number to reach before it's allowed to count? I know a lot of us are mood readers, especially for Readathons."Yeah, page numbers or percentage of the book, maybe? It will be rough if we start feeling like we have to stick it out with a book because it covers multiple categories. And that's another question, can they count for multiple categories? Say you have a book with three people on the bright orange cover, with a title starting with X and an author starting with Y, set in an obscure country and containing animals, a fictional race, mythology, and it has fewer than 1,000 Goodreads ratings. (No, sadly I do not have this marvel of a book, but you all see where I'm headed with this. lol).
Leni wrote: "Yeah, page numbers or percentage of the book, maybe? It will be rough if we start feeling like we have to stick it out with a book because it covers multiple categories. And that's another question, can they count for multiple categories?..."haha that would be an interesting book! But I think I read somewhere, can't find it now, maybe in the Scavenger Hunt Ideas comments, that books can count for multiple categories. Otherwise this would be really rough. lol
Iluzija wrote: "Also, I don't know your plans, but I think it would be great if you would edit the main post in the countries list to include countries visited (same with letters) so people can write as much as th..."That was my plan, though I hadn't thought of marking how many times they were visited. Good idea on that one.
Also, your post above is a good suggestion. Gabby and I had some number thoughts down and then thought we would re-evaluate part way through if need be (raise or lower). Some tasks are going to be easy to get 50 books. Like children's books. While others might be hard to even get 50 (like non-fiction).
Okay, maybe you need to read at least a quarter of the book. To have given it a good go.
Kathryn CA wrote: "Okay, maybe you need to read at least a quarter of the book. To have given it a good go."That sounds reasonable! :)
Kathryn CA wrote: "Iluzija wrote: "Also, I don't know your plans, but I think it would be great if you would edit the main post in the countries list to include countries visited (same with letters) so people can wri..."Not all categories need to have the same number, but some categories are supposed to be harder than others. There are those that are given, where if you read anything you want you can participate, but there should be some that are for people making an effort. Or did I get the idea of scavenger hunt wrong (I am not from USA and we had different games here)?
Iluzija wrote: "Kathryn CA wrote: "Iluzija wrote: "Also, I don't know your plans, but I think it would be great if you would edit the main post in the countries list to include countries visited (same with letters..."No, you got it exactly right.
We'll be posting the threads with initial numbers required for each task later today or tomorrow.
So do we claim a book for only 1 category or multiple if they fit mroe than 1.Such as first in a series but aslo a green cover.
Or for Welcome to the Zoo what if there are more than 1 animal mentioned?
Jamie wrote: "So do we claim a book for only 1 category or multiple if they fit mroe than 1.Such as first in a series but aslo a green cover.
Or for Welcome to the Zoo what if there are more than 1 animal men..."
One book can count for multiple categories! :)
Jamie wrote: "So do we claim a book for only 1 category or multiple if they fit mroe than 1.Such as first in a series but aslo a green cover.
Or for Welcome to the Zoo what if there are more than 1 animal men..."
As Elyse said, it can count for more than one category.
Okay, number of books have been posted for the 15 tasks I'll be monitoring. Let me know what you all think. If I should raise some of them (which ones and to what) or if I should lower some of them (again, which ones and to what). I wanted this to be an achievable challenge. Especially since it only for 24 hours.Thanks!
Kate
With "Sharing is Caring", wouldn't it make more sense to collect minutes read rather than books read?
Leni wrote: "With "Sharing is Caring", wouldn't it make more sense to collect minutes read rather than books read?"Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. Great suggestion. Any idea what a good number of minutes would be?
This is so cool! I'm really looking forward to it
Kathryn CA wrote: "Leni wrote: "With "Sharing is Caring", wouldn't it make more sense to collect minutes read rather than books read?"Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. Great suggestion. Any idea what a good number..."
I don't know... would it make sense to aim for 24h? lol
That's 1440 minutes. I can almost guarantee that I'll fill at least 60 of those minutes, so that's 1/24 taken care of.
Leni wrote: "Kathryn CA wrote: "Leni wrote: "With "Sharing is Caring", wouldn't it make more sense to collect minutes read rather than books read?"Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. Great suggestion. Any idea..."
I'll round it up to 1500. We will see how that goes. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hmmm I live alone. Can I read to my dog?? lol
Amber (bookstacksamber) wrote: "Hmmm I live alone. Can I read to my dog?? lol"Heck yes! I say. :)
Amber (bookstacksamber) wrote: "Hmmm I live alone. Can I read to my dog?? lol"Absolutely. PLEASE DO! If you read to your dog, I'll read to my teddy bear.
(also live alone)
Amber (bookstacksamber) wrote: "Hmmm I live alone. Can I read to my dog?? lol"Yes! Include those furbabies as they snuggle up with you!
Kathryn CA wrote: "Amber (bookstacksamber) wrote: "Hmmm I live alone. Can I read to my dog?? lol"Absolutely. PLEASE DO! If you read to your dog, I'll read to my teddy bear.
(also live alone)"
Cool, Seven (my cat) is very happy I'll be reading to her (she's already lying on my lap) :)
I don't understand this scavenger hunt. Are we to read all these books or just find ones that fit the prompts. No way I can read all these book prompts in one day! This is my first time doing the readathon.
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Kate’s List to Manage
1 - Visit all 50 states
2 - Welcome to the Zoo (how many different animals can we collect)
3 - Unlinkable reading (magazines, fanfiction, etc)
4 - Prolific series (books from series consisting of 20+ books)
5 - Popular Books (Read books that have more than 100,000 Goodreads ratings)
6 - Unknown Books (Read books with less than 1,000 Goodreads ratings)
7 - Audiobooks
8 - E-Books
9 - Sharing is Caring - Read to another person
10 - Learn something new (Read a non-fiction book, be that self-help, biography, autobiography, etc)
11 - First in the series
12 - Last in the series (or most recent)
13 - Author ABC (try to get every letter in the alphabet)
14 - Title ABC (try to get every letter in the alphabet)
15 - I like big books and I cannot lie (500+ page books)
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Gabby’s List to Manage
16 - Visit 50 countries (There are 195 countries in the world so this would be about a quarter of them. The book needs to be set there at least a quarter of the time. Alternatively, the author can be from a different country as well. So either set in or written by...)
17 - Children’s Books
18 - Unconventional Reading (Includes Plays, poetry, short stories, graphic novels, Manga)
19 - Read the Rainbow - Red (Cover at least 50%)
20 - Read the Rainbow - Orange (Cover at least 50%)
21 - Read the Rainbow - Yellow (Cover at least 50%)
22 - Read the Rainbow - Green (Cover at least 50%)
23 - Read the Rainbow - Blue (Cover at least 50%)
24 - Read the Rainbow - Purple (Cover at least 50%)
25 - Bust the TBR - (on the TBR shelf for more than a year)
26 - Cliche Tropes (books with cliche tropes like love triangle, the chosen one, ect.)
27 - Three's a Crowd (three or more people on the cover)
28 - Mythology or Fairy Tales (Any cultural mythology will work. Norse Mythology, African Mythology, Asian Mythology, Greek Mythology, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen, etc)
29 - Book to Screen (TV or Film)
30 - Fictional race or animals (dragons, elves ect).