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Originally Posted by Nyssa
My biggest issue is figuring in short stories & novellas. […] I don't want to leave shorter works out all together becuase many series include them as prequels or bonus stories.
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Maybe consider them as supplementary "pages read" but not books for the purpose of the count?
I include novellas/series shorts, graphic novels, mixed-author anthologies, and re-reads on my official list in the other 100 Books challenge thread, but I use roman numerals/letter subscripts to the most recent qualifying book read to set them apart from the new, full-length works I've picked up this year.
That way I can keep track of All-New, All-Different! stuff without having to wonder about whether or not I should count the stuff which is my umpteenth time reading an old favourite, or finishing up that title I got halfway through last year and remembered I had on my Kindle this year, or whether that 1200 location novelette is near enough to a short novel, or that nice shiny picture book has enough words in it.
It helps save the quibbling and decisions for the end of the year once the challenge is officially over.