Rules

The Basics

The goal is to read as many pages as you can during the summer.

Read a book, then post the title, author, and number of pages in one of the Summer Read-a-Thon forum threads. You’ll need to join one of the participating forums to do this. You can sign up on the Incredibooks forum, Holy Worlds Fantasy, or Holy Worlds Sci-Fi. At the bottom of your post, keep a running total of pages you’ve read so far. Here’s a sample:

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 336 pages.

Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren. 160 pages.

The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden. 144 pages.

Running total: 640 pages

It is recommended that participants use a calculator to add up their running total.

All the books that you post must be read in the time between June 13th and August 13th. You have until 6am CT on August 14th to report your totals.

All genres of books are eligible, including non-fiction and “instructional” such as craft, sewing, etc. Comic books, graphic novels, and magazines are not eligible.

You do not need to finish a book to count the pages, but only count the pages that you read during the event window. For example, if you start a book on August 12th and only finish 75 pages before the end of the event, you may only add those 75 pages to your total. Be sure to note if you didn’t read the entire book when reporting page totals. The same procedure applies to Bible and devotional reading, etc.; simply count the actual number of pages you read.

Audio book (not dramatizations) may be counted; look up the paper copy of the book on the internet and report that number of pages. When reporting page totals, be sure to indicate if the book you read was an audio book. The same procedure applies to books on Kindle and other e-readers.

What counts as a page?

Any book that is in or above your approximate reading level counts toward the number of pages read. We’re not going to be super strict on this, but try to stay near your reading level.

However, if you read a book below your reading level aloud to a younger sibling, that book counts toward your total page count.

Insights

We encourage all participants to post insights about what they’ve just read, along with their page count. Feel free to tell everybody the last book you read was great, and that they need to read it! Also, don’t forget that you can discuss the book in greater detail by starting a thread about it on the Incredibooks, Holy Worlds Fantasy, and Holy Worlds Sci-Fi forums.

The Winners

After the final date, we’ll post a list of participants and the number of pages they read during the Read-a-Thon. Then we’ll announce the winners of the prizes! Participants from all three sites will be scored together for prize distribution.

Prizes

One prize will be awarded to the participant who reads the most pages overall. The top readers from the other two sites will also receive a prize. We will then randomly choose from the participants from all three sites for the remaining prizes, as available. Incredibooks reviewers, Holy Worlds contest organizers, and their families cannot win prizes, so in the event that one of them reads the most pages, we will pick the person who has read the next most.

If we have a prize that is not claimed after a week, we will draw another name.

How to Sign Up

You will need to sign up on one of the participating forums. You must be a member of a participating forum to post your page totals. Whichever forum you sign up on is the forum you should report your page totals on. While you are welcome to chat on all three forums, only report your page totals on one forum.

You may sign up at Incredibooks, Holy Worlds Fantasy, or Holy Worlds Sci-Fi in the appropriate sign-up thread on each forum.

On the first day of the event, each forum will start a reporting thread and a chat thread. Please post your page totals on the appropriate reporting thread as described above. To make it easier on the contest organizers, please don’t chat in the reporting threads! All chatter, questions, and excitement should go in the related chat threads.

Registration closes June 30th. Be sure to register before then!