You could have a thread for signing up for the Read-a-Thon, and then before it starts close it so nobody can come in and surprise members who worked hard all summer. It sounds nasty hostile, but last time we had some nosty surprises.

I think so too. I think that as long as we open it super soon, it wouldn’t be mean. Close it like..a week after the 09 R.A.T(lol! Read-A-Thon=R.A.T.) starts or something.Because I join the 08 read-a-thon a few days after it started.

Why? They still get the same amount of time to read as everyone else does, and it’s not like we could increase our reading time by warp speed just because we see that someone happens to be ahead.

Or we could all keep our records separately until the very end, that might make things interesting.

That is the best idea I’ve heard so far. But it was kind of exciting seeing where everybody was at all the time.

*doesn’t like that idea*

We’d all be frazzled from stress by the end of the RAT and then we’ll die of a heart attack as soon as we see everyone elses score! Not a good idea. Especially because we won’t have time before our funerals to remove the purple bags from underneath our eyes and we’ll have cramped fingers from turning pages for ever and ever and ever! It’ll make our ghosts horribly grumpy, so grumpy that chocolate and poetry will not please them. And therefore it will be our fault that the boards end up empty and rotting and haunted.

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Oh, indeed. Very bad.

True. That constant stream of banter is entertaining