Read-a-Thon ’08 Questions and Comments

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  • #42091
    Jordan
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    monkeygal693 – 15 minutes ago  » 

    1.) My church is have a summer reading thingy, and we are reading all the minor prophets. Can I count the pages in the book of Joel, Hosea, and the others?

    2.) I have a science book I’ve doing this semester, and still have a lot left to go. I’ve been keeping track of what I’ve read on which days. When I finish it, could I count the pages I read from June 1st onward, or does it not count at all!?!

    Yes, of course, anything you read in your Bible counts! :-)

    As for the science book, I’ll need to discuss it with the rest of the organizers. We’ll get back to you on that.

    #42092
    Sarah
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    Aah!!! Everybody’s reading too much! Help! :D I haven’t read much at all.

    #42093
    Kyle
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    I have the same sort of feeling. I started a longish book in the last week of May and now I’m trying to finish it quickly.

    #42094
    Alassiel
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    I know. Adalin is my younger sister, and she has been doing nothing but read for the last few days. I have been doing a lot of reading too, but it’s mostly been A Tale of Two Cities, which I started at the end of May. It isn’t easy reading, so it takes a while to get through.

    #42095
    Sarah
    Member

    I wasn’t very far into Alice in Wonderland, so I started reading it over again last night. :D

    #42096
    Sloan
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    Sarah – 3 days ago  » 

    Aah!!! Everybody’s reading too much! Help! :D I haven’t read much at all.

    I know! I haven’t even finished a book yet and there are people who’ve already read a thousand pages! I’ll have to spend a lot more time reading.

    #42097
    Sarah
    Member

    I just finished reading a book that has lots and lots of illustrations. There are full-page illustrations and then there are smaller illustrations on each page. How do I fairly count the pages for the Read-a-Thon?

    #42098
    Jordan
    Member

    How many is lots and lots? If the book was at, above, or around your reading level, then you can count whatever the page count is. Plus, full-page illustrations aren’t usually counted in the page count of a book by the publisher, so they are probably already not in the page count.

    #42099
    Pip
    Member

    I’m reading a bunch of smallish books, they really rack up numbers!

    #42100
    Owan
    Member

    jordan – 2 weeks ago  » 

    Books below your reading level do count if read aloud to others. So if you read a picture book to a younger sibling, you can count those pages!

    *brings out the tykes*

    #42101
    Jedimaster17
    Member

    I got over 2,000 pages so far! But i do have one question. Whoever wins, how will you send the book to them? Just ask for there address? And how do you know if someone is making up all the pages they read?

    #42102
    Jordan
    Member

    Jedimaster17 – 7 hours ago  » 

    Whoever wins, how will you send the book to them? Just ask for there address? And how do you know if someone is making up all the pages they read?

    We will ask the winners for their addresses through our PM system, or ask them to email us. Then we’ll forward it to the author of the book they’ve won, and they’ll send it to that person.

    We’re doing this on the honor system, so we’re trusting everybody to be truthful about what books they’ve read. Obviously, if we find out that somebody is lying about their page count, they’ll be disqualified.

    #42103
    Pip
    Member

    How do you find out?

    #42104
    Jordan
    Member

    Well, hypothetically speaking in the regard of if we found out. If a list of books seems suspicious, we would contact the member and make sure that their list is legitimate.

    #42105
    Pip
    Member

    I think we’d all appreciate it if no one went into hiding until the day before the Read-a-Thon ends, and then surprise us with a million pages. We all need a chance to win, and we need to be fair.

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