[sun surfer]

Some minor considerations, but I'm going to make a change or two to the info I post for nominations.

First is that I used to calculate the page total for a nomination by viewing its editions page on Goodreads and calculating the mean (always rounded up to the nearest whole number) of the first five (or less, if there's less than five on the first results page) different (i.e. excluding any identical results once counted) results within normal range (e.g. excluding an obviously incorrect 900 page listing for a book whose other listing are all around 200 pages, or an incorrect 45 page listing for a 600 page book) mostly English-language results (if I could tell the difference by title or if it listed language; otherwise I assumed the edition was English). I really liked this procedure because it wasn't too difficult and gave a more honest number to compare for a wide range of titles rather than taking the first result only (which if used would've sometimes resulted in very outlier lengths being used), and easier than me having to spend time thinking on which length is most appropriate to use for each title. I know I've mentioned all that before, but I wanted to describe the process again so the change will make sense.

Now I will look at the same group of five page lengths per title but instead of finding the mean, I'll just use the median (I would guess all of you know what that means, but just in case, it basically is that instead of adding the five together and then dividing by five, I'll simply choose the listed book length of the five that's in the middle when ordered lowest to highest). This will still be a good way to find average lengths of each nomination but will be slightly easier for me to do. It will usually mean no calculator necessary (yay!), unless there happen to be only four or only two results, in which cases I would have to add the middle two results together and divide by two for the median. This is just an FYI really since I don't think most would've really noticed one way or the other.

[Edit-For comparison, here's the list of this month's nominations with the mean listed first and the median second:

Tales of the Tikongs (2 Listings)
Mean- 099 Pages / Median- 099 Pages

The Daughter (2 Listings)
Mean- 221 Pages / Median- 221 Pages

Half of a Yellow Sun (5 Listings)
Mean- 506 Pages / Median- 543 Pages

Snow Country (5 Listings)
Mean- 191 Pages / Median- 175 Pages

Sunset Song (5 Listings)
Mean- 280 Pages / Median- 275 Pages

Resistance (5 Listings)
Mean- 328 Pages / Median- 320 Pages

Petals of Blood (5 Listings)
Mean- 384 Pages / Median- 368 Pages

Kokoro (5 Listings)
Mean- 258 Pages / Median- 248 Pages]

Second is that I'm considering adding in year published and country the writer is from for every nomination. I've already been doing this for the Region months (country) and the Time Period months (year) and I really like it, and since I usually go to Goodreads for each nomination anyway to get page lengths, this info is often right there as well and would be even easier to collect than page lengths. It might not be perfect; I don't want to spend a lot of time researching to make sure I have the most correct year or country in iffy cases, but it will still suffice to give a nice general idea and usually be correct, and anyone can always offer corrections if they notice something awry. My main hesitancy on it is not clogging the nomination list up too much.