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Old 01-01-2010, 09:31 PM   #76
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Wow - some of these numbers are incredible. It never occured to me to keep track. Time to set goals for 2010
Me either. I guess I need to keep track. I've really only read a few full novels this year (maybe as many as 6), but I've also been reading Interzone and Analog, and game books on my DR. RPG core books tend to run about 60,000 to 150,000 words.

So all that together. . .maybe 35 or so?
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Old 01-01-2010, 10:50 PM   #77
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153 books (the lowest count in the last 5 years since I've started counting)...the last one (finally) being:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:28 AM   #78
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...the last one (finally) being:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
It's much better in the original English...
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Old 01-02-2010, 04:30 PM   #79
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I just went through my reading journal archive, for comparison.

2009:
Book tally: 77
Pagecount tally: 25399

2008:
Book tally: 61
Pagecount tally: 17133

2007:
Book Tally: 52
Pagecount Tally: 14579

2006:
Book tally: 69
Pagecount tally: 23240

2005: (August through December, previous months not tracked)
Book tally: 26
Pagecount tally: 7932
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Old 01-02-2010, 05:49 PM   #80
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I really don't know. One of the Yahoo groups I'm in, some of the members keep track of what they read and post a monthly list. I tried it, and failed miserably after about a week. I think I'm going to try it again, the challenge for me is remembering to write down the books I'm reading, either while doing it or when I'm done with it. Maybe if I add another Sticky note to my desktop...although I'm running out of desktop to put stickies on...
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Old 01-02-2010, 05:57 PM   #81
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Shel, are you on GoodReads? A lot of people keep track on there with the 100+ book challenge. You get a dedicated thread and you just post every time you finish a book.
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:16 PM   #82
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I would love a link to te 100+ thread and the yahoo group, please
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:17 PM   #83
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It's much better in the original English...
Do you know how long it took me to figure out that "jumper" meant "sweater" in the "original English"?? I kept picturing Ron in a dress!
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:18 PM   #84
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I would love a link to te 100+ thread and the yahoo group, please
Here's the 100+ group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...Book_Challenge

I don't know the yahoo group though.
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Old 01-02-2010, 09:57 PM   #85
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190 new ebooks maybe a dozen paper books and I'm not sure how many old favourites got reread, other than all of Honour Harrington.
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:14 PM   #86
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I want to start keeping track of the books I read but I don't know which method to use. I could, of course, just make a spreadsheet but I could also register for librarything, goodreads, or shelfari. Shelfari looks like it has the best UI but is there a MR consensus on which one is the best/most useful?
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:18 PM   #87
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Do you know how long it took me to figure out that "jumper" meant "sweater" in the "original English"?? I kept picturing Ron in a dress!
I went through this too, the first time I read about SAS troopers wearing a jumper.

What I found is that it can mean several different articles of clothing besides a dress as in American English.

As for the number of books read, now that the year is officially over...

97 novels, God only knows how many magazines, and some very, very strange T-shirt and Jackets (One has to live in Japan to understand this.)

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I went through this too, the first time I read about SAS troopers wearing a jumper.

What I found is that it can mean several different articles of clothing besides a dress as in American English. ...
In the United Kingdom, a solicitor is a lawyer. Here in the United States, a solicitor is a prostitute. An amazing example of how the two dialects are essentially identical.
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Do you know how long it took me to figure out that "jumper" meant "sweater" in the "original English"?? I kept picturing Ron in a dress!
Ah, so this joke will now make sense to you:

Q: What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?
A: A wooly jumper.
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Old 01-03-2010, 05:34 AM   #90
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Ah, so this joke will now make sense to you:

Q: What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?
A: A woolly jumper.


My dress uniform as an enlisted sailor in the US Navy was a woolly jumper. Come to think of it I was married wearing a woolly jumper.
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