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SouthernSun · 01-01-2014, 05:47 PM

So: My friend is using GoodReads to track her reading goal (which is also 52 books!). I enjoy looking at everybody's fresh new goals at the start of the year, and when I clicked through, she's already read five! I was pretty stunned, so I went to her profile, and saw that they're all short stories, and that she's split a short story collection into the individual stories.

Now, personally, I consider short story collections to be one book, just because I don't feel that there's enough "substance" in a short story to say that I've read a book, much less five: so if I were to personally read a short story collection, it would be counted as one book, but would fulfil my page count goal as usual.

I personally think that she should be aiming higher than 52 if she's counting short stories -- the girl reads like the wind!

What about everybody else? This has made me think about how other people (who are setting goals relating to books that they've read, obviously) treat books, and what counts as one book to people. Are you counting short stories as individual books, or do you have some other criteria for them?

01-01-2014, 05:47 PM	#87
SouthernSun Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 166452 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Keyboard	So: My friend is using GoodReads to track her reading goal (which is also 52 books!). I enjoy looking at everybody's fresh new goals at the start of the year, and when I clicked through, she's already read five! I was pretty stunned, so I went to her profile, and saw that they're all short stories, and that she's split a short story collection into the individual stories. Now, personally, I consider short story collections to be one book, just because I don't feel that there's enough "substance" in a short story to say that I've read a book, much less five: so if I were to personally read a short story collection, it would be counted as one book, but would fulfil my page count goal as usual. I personally think that she should be aiming higher than 52 if she's counting short stories -- the girl reads like the wind! What about everybody else? This has made me think about how other people (who are setting goals relating to books that they've read, obviously) treat books, and what counts as one book to people. Are you counting short stories as individual books, or do you have some other criteria for them?