04-02-2013, 12:27 AM | #241 |
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Good luck with the surgery, BelleZora! I had that done on both eyes. Just make sure you follow the instructions and take it easy for a while. If the surgery is successful, the change will be amazing.
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04-02-2013, 09:32 AM | #242 |
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Best of luck on the surgery BellaZora.
One quarter in and I'm over halfway on my year in the life challenge. Woohoo! Only nineteen more years to go. Some useless statistics. Years Completed: 25/44 Books Read: 26 Pages Read: 7,672 Distinct Authors: 26 New Authors: 17 Paper Books: 23 E-Books: 3 |
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04-03-2013, 12:00 AM | #243 | |
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When I can't find any page count in the locations above I have kept records of the average number of pages/location in Kindle books and use this to back-calculate an approximate page count. Right now my average is 15.84 locations/page since January 2011 and 160ish books. I have been accused of being too detailed in this. They were probably right. I also have considered using a "locations" goal since that is a number that I can easily find and is well defined (128 bits). That would cover anything I put on my Kindle, but doesn't intuitively tell me how long a book is, so I prefer pages. |
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04-07-2013, 09:39 PM | #244 |
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Twenty five books down, if I keep going like this I might make one hundred books this year.
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04-08-2013, 10:56 AM | #245 |
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I might be in that area too, but I usually have a lull coming up pretty soon.
Twenty-seven books down and twenty-six of forty-four years complete. Only eighteen more years to go which is nice. |
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04-08-2013, 04:50 PM | #246 |
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I am, hopefully, recovering from a week-and-a-half long lull, with Neil Gaiman's American Gods. This will be my 20th book of the year Seeing as 8 of those 20 were short story/novella size, at almost 600 pgs long, this should make up for any pages read deficit.
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04-10-2013, 07:38 AM | #247 | |
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readable, full of anticipatory moments. So you wont even think of it as a long book. I had it in my annual challenge as well. Hope you like it |
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04-10-2013, 07:40 AM | #248 |
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Question how do I put a link to My 2013 reads thus far in my signature??? sorry for the dumb question..... would like to link it and have seen some with this link....but not sure how quite to go about it.......???
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04-10-2013, 07:46 AM | #249 | |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2357980&postcount=21 and you need to add it to your signature like this Books read in 2013 |
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04-10-2013, 07:55 AM | #250 | |
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Yes, so far so good. At ~80 pgs in, Mr. Gaiman has me curious about quite a few things. |
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04-10-2013, 08:03 AM | #251 |
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Don't typically care that much for short stories and novellas and such I do not feel that an author can do justice to a tale in that small a number of pages. An author needs to take his/her time to develop the story line and the characters. Personal opinion only.
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04-10-2013, 10:28 AM | #252 | |
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Don't get me wrong; I like big books, too - Stephen King's It is one of my favorites, and clocks in at 1138 pages as originally printed. But that's a five-course banquet, and sometimes all you want is a gumdrop... |
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cheers will try when I am not half a sleep.....
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04-10-2013, 12:16 PM | #255 |
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I've read more than a few books that should have been a little shorter.
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