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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4653 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 497 of 713 15 May 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Sounds reasonable to me. Of the three books I've read, two were barely over 100 pages, but one was 380 pages, and the one I'm working on now is 250. There's a BIG difference between a 100 page book and a 380 page book! And I found one book in Spanish at the thrift store that's over 900 pages! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4677 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 498 of 713 15 May 2012 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I think it will be a pretty simple change. For a 350 page book people can just log
something like #book "Peter Rabbit 1/3"; "Peter Rabbit 2/3"; "Peter Rabbit 3/3." I'm not sure how you would log the final half book, or how the twitter algorithm would handle it. It might be easier to just look at completed chunks (so the 350 page book would be three books, not 3.5 books). 10,000 pages is still about 120 pages a week, which is a lot if one is at the B1 level, and reading at the B1+ level! Though I'm biased. I like reading bigger books, and it will be more satisfying to be able to log each chunk rather than having to wait a month or two for each post. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4392 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 499 of 713 15 May 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
I'm currently reading a book that's 498 pages. I had the passing thought that I should glue in a couple of extra pages from another book just to push it over that 500 limit (plus, it's turned out to be an especially boring book, so maybe it would have improved the story!). I'm all for counting pages as suggested. If I read 120 pages, it feels good to count it as 1.2 books.
This is where I put on my developer hat to say that changing the twitter bot to fit the new rules is a 5-minute job, if that. The bigger issue will be that people who have sumbitted books will have to remember/notice and go back to add page numbers to them if they want them split up. (Although it's optional - a #book without a page count would just count as 100 pages). Just give the word and I can make the changes.
I don't see that the twitter algorithm would need much tweaking at all. It almost works on this system already (except for that it counts books at 250 instead of 100). If you're reading peter rabbit, you could write:
If you're lazy and read an average sized book, you could still write:
If people use the same title every time they report an update, we can even start tracking how long it takes to read each book (so you can see how you speed up over time) and other interesting things like that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5122 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 500 of 713 16 May 2012 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Since everyone seems to be in favour of counting 100 pages as a book - and Surrealix says it is not too much work for him - I'll say let's do it!
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6408 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 501 of 713 16 May 2012 at 8:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
And here I've been reading 4-5 hours a day to make sure I can complete 250 pages every 6 days. (I like to read books that are actually a little too hard in order to push myself to get better.) Of course, it might be hard to do once I get back to working full time. So I guess I'll go along with the crowd. Fortunately, I have entered page counts for what I've done so far. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5122 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 502 of 713 16 May 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Nothing is lost:-) This just makes it a bit more feasible, and hopefully more motivating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6385 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 503 of 713 16 May 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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YAY!
Feature request: can there be a tag for half-books? Rather than adding 50 pages to the total it would be good to add 0.5 to the book count.
Makes sense in terms of LR/audiobooks btw. If an audiobook counts as several movies it's only fair that the book counts as a few books. Also, if you just count pages it makes it more motivating, like with tadoku. You can register every 10 pages rather than wait till you finish reading. (though there's also the downside that you have to remember where you've stopped). Another feature request: can there be a way to #finish the book? just stating total pages and combining the previous entries with the same name. Edited by Serpent on 16 May 2012 at 11:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4392 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 504 of 713 16 May 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here - adding 50 pages is the same as adding 0.5 books, and adding 0.5 books is the same as adding 50 pages. Of course I could add a #halfbook tag that's shorthand for #book 50 pages, but it would just be for convenience, because it doesn't change the way anything works. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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