The 2018 Annual Reading Challenge Discussion Thread - Page 18

Dngrsone · 12-10-2018, 02:14 PM

I will have to scale back my target next year...

astrangerhere · 12-10-2018, 02:28 PM

Goals:

Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 100) | Total Pages: 25,000 | TBR Reduction: 25 (stretch goal of 50)
Read at least 51% non-American authors | Read more female/gender-fluid authors than male | Read at least 52 short stories | Read at least 10 of the New Leaf Book Club selections | Complete a re-read of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace

Aggregate Totals (Updated through November):

108 books - 216% of my goal (150% of stretch goal) - GOAL MET
57 short stories - 109% of my goal - GOAL MET
34423 pages - 137% of my goal - GOAL MET
52% female/nonbinary authors / 48% male authors - GOAL MET
52% US authors (up from 47%) / 48% non-US authors (down from 52%) - off target - Still working on it!
293 of 365 chapters of War and Peace complete - off target - I was reading this almost exclusively with my late cat in my lap and it has been HARD to go back to. I hope to make it, but we'll see.
TBR Reduction: Reduced by 48 - 192% of my goal (96% of stretch goal) - GOAL MET
New Leaf Book Club selections - 9 for 10 - on target - will complete this with the completion of Scarlet Pimpernel for December!

pdurrant · 12-11-2018, 01:26 AM

The new list thread for 2019 is up!

Go and reserve your spot!

astrangerhere · 12-11-2018, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The new list thread for 2019 is up!

Go and reserve your spot!

Thank you!

Tarana · 12-11-2018, 10:13 AM

I only count freebies in my TBR if they are audio books or by an author I already read. So Mike Resnick will be in there, but Mike Wallace wasn't until I read one of his that I bought for $1 back in 2010. Weird things we track.

astrangerhere · 12-11-2018, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Tarana

I only count freebies in my TBR if they are audio books or by an author I already read. So Mike Resnick will be in there, but Mike Wallace wasn't until I read one of his that I bought for $1 back in 2010. Weird things we track.

What about library books? They count against my TBR reduction because they add a title read without removing one of my unread titles. How do you folks handle it?

issybird · 12-11-2018, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

What about library books? They count against my TBR reduction because they add a title read without removing one of my unread titles. How do you folks handle it?

I don't count library books or public domain as TBR reduction, only purchased books. It seems to me in this instance you'd have to add the book into your TBR first in order to count it, so it's null no matter what; otherwise you'd eventually reach the point where TBR reduction showed zero titles remaining, except that you'd still have unread books. TBR reduction is a subset of total books read.

CRussel · 12-11-2018, 11:47 AM

Library books get added to the TBR and removed when read. So yeah, a null.

Dazrin · 12-11-2018, 12:05 PM

For library books I would add it to my TBR when I put it on hold (or when I know I will be) and then remove it when I get it in, so it ends up being neutral.

But really, I only pay attention to paid books. Right now my TBR is down by 1 book and $0.24 for 2018.

Freebies I generally don't have enough invested in for it to bother me if they stay on my TBR forever and library books are transient enough that they don't matter either. Most of my freebies are on a second TBR list so they don't even show up most of the time. Only when I don't want to read anything on my main one.

Dngrsone · 12-11-2018, 12:57 PM

I'm not tracking TBRs... it would be too depressing.

CRussel · 12-11-2018, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dazrin

For library books I would add it to my TBR when I put it on hold (or when I know I will be) and then remove it when I get it in, so it ends up being neutral.

But really, I only pay attention to paid books. Right now my TBR is down by 1 book and $0.24 for 2018.

Freebies I generally don't have enough invested in for it to bother me if they stay on my TBR forever and library books are transient enough that they don't matter either. Most of my freebies are on a second TBR list so they don't even show up most of the time. Only when I don't want to read anything on my main one.

I track Library books in my "Books Bought in <year>" category. Because even if I didn't buy them, I invested the time and energy in acquiring and/or reading them. So my numbers are a bit skewed because of it. OTOH, keeps my cost/book down.

Byrdie · 12-11-2018, 03:09 PM

I must say I am very pleased with my progress this year. My goal of 50 books -- 3 of which had to be non-fiction since I rarely read those -- was met back in August. According to Goodreads my page count is 13,629 pages read across 77 books. The longest book I read in 2018 was The Marriage Stone by Josephine Darcy at 1,525 pages and the shortest at only 3 pages was Shhhhhh! by Atlin Merrick. Right now I am almost finished with my 78th book. That one also meets my goal of revisiting my DNF shelf, which thankfully is itsy bitsy compared to my TBR pile. I don't think I'm even going to bother counting the books there, they just keep right on coming!

My 2019 goal is what I'm working on now; the one thing I do know about it is that I want to read at least as many books as I did this year. Details to follow -- when I'm absolutely certain -- in the 2019 thread.

Tarana · 12-11-2018, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

What about library books? They count against my TBR reduction because they add a title read without removing one of my unread titles. How do you folks handle it?

How you define your TBR depends on your wishes. TBR to me are purchases rather than library or other stuff. I should exclude freebie audiobooks as well, but the spreadsheet I use includes all the audiobooks, not just the freebies. If I figure out how to exclude those without mucking up my spreadsheet, I'll eliminate those from the count as well.

astrangerhere · 12-11-2018, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarana

How you define your TBR depends on your wishes. TBR to me are purchases rather than library or other stuff. I should exclude freebie audiobooks as well, but the spreadsheet I use includes all the audiobooks, not just the freebies. If I figure out how to exclude those without mucking up my spreadsheet, I'll eliminate those from the count as well.

Of course, it's a personal preference. I was just taking a straw poll

latepaul · 12-16-2018, 08:50 AM

Just finished my 62nd book of the year so have officially completed my challenge for number of books!

For the rest of the challenge... erm not so much. Of those 62 I read just 9 off my TBR, 2 were previously started books and I only made it to June on the book club. I was ill in July (0 books read

) and so skipped that month and never ended up returning.

Still happy to have read double the number I read in 2017!

12-10-2018, 02:28 PM	#257
astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,640 Karma: 65925980 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	Goals: Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 100) \| Total Pages: 25,000 \| TBR Reduction: 25 (stretch goal of 50) Read at least 51% non-American authors \| Read more female/gender-fluid authors than male \| Read at least 52 short stories \| Read at least 10 of the New Leaf Book Club selections \| Complete a re-read of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace Aggregate Totals (Updated through November): 108 books - 216% of my goal (150% of stretch goal) - GOAL MET 57 short stories - 109% of my goal - GOAL MET 34423 pages - 137% of my goal - GOAL MET 52% female/nonbinary authors / 48% male authors - GOAL MET 52% US authors (up from 47%) / 48% non-US authors (down from 52%) - off target - Still working on it! 293 of 365 chapters of War and Peace complete - off target - I was reading this almost exclusively with my late cat in my lap and it has been HARD to go back to. I hope to make it, but we'll see. TBR Reduction: Reduced by 48 - 192% of my goal (96% of stretch goal) - GOAL MET New Leaf Book Club selections - 9 for 10 - on target - will complete this with the completion of Scarlet Pimpernel for December!

12-11-2018, 01:26 AM	#258
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,506 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	The new list thread for 2019 is up! Go and reserve your spot! Last edited by pdurrant; 12-11-2018 at 10:13 AM. Reason: typo

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12-10-2018, 02:14 PM	#256
Dngrsone Almost legible Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78	I will have to scale back my target next year...

12-11-2018, 10:13 AM	#260
Tarana Wizard Posts: 3,980 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	I only count freebies in my TBR if they are audio books or by an author I already read. So Mike Resnick will be in there, but Mike Wallace wasn't until I read one of his that I bought for $1 back in 2010. Weird things we track.

12-11-2018, 11:47 AM	#263
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,160 Karma: 79742714 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), Fire HD 8	Library books get added to the TBR and removed when read. So yeah, a null.

12-11-2018, 12:05 PM	#264
Dazrin Wizard Posts: 2,631 Karma: 73864785 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: PDXish Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices	For library books I would add it to my TBR when I put it on hold (or when I know I will be) and then remove it when I get it in, so it ends up being neutral. But really, I only pay attention to paid books. Right now my TBR is down by 1 book and $0.24 for 2018. Freebies I generally don't have enough invested in for it to bother me if they stay on my TBR forever and library books are transient enough that they don't matter either. Most of my freebies are on a second TBR list so they don't even show up most of the time. Only when I don't want to read anything on my main one.

12-11-2018, 12:57 PM	#265
Dngrsone Almost legible Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78	I'm not tracking TBRs... it would be too depressing.

12-11-2018, 03:09 PM	#267
Byrdie Walking Library Posts: 234 Karma: 3869938 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H20, Kindle Paperwhite 5, 16 gb version	I must say I am very pleased with my progress this year. My goal of 50 books -- 3 of which had to be non-fiction since I rarely read those -- was met back in August. According to Goodreads my page count is 13,629 pages read across 77 books. The longest book I read in 2018 was The Marriage Stone by Josephine Darcy at 1,525 pages and the shortest at only 3 pages was Shhhhhh! by Atlin Merrick. Right now I am almost finished with my 78th book. That one also meets my goal of revisiting my DNF shelf, which thankfully is itsy bitsy compared to my TBR pile. I don't think I'm even going to bother counting the books there, they just keep right on coming! My 2019 goal is what I'm working on now; the one thing I do know about it is that I want to read at least as many books as I did this year. Details to follow -- when I'm absolutely certain -- in the 2019 thread.

12-16-2018, 08:50 AM	#270
latepaul Wizard Posts: 1,264 Karma: 10203040 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: a variety (mostly kindles and kobos)	Just finished my 62nd book of the year so have officially completed my challenge for number of books! For the rest of the challenge... erm not so much. Of those 62 I read just 9 off my TBR, 2 were previously started books and I only made it to June on the book club. I was ill in July (0 books read ) and so skipped that month and never ended up returning. Still happy to have read double the number I read in 2017!