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Originally posted by: Queen0fDarkness

Thanks for the tag! 🤗 Please sign me up. I’ve been trying to get back into reading and slowly getting there. I’ll start off with 3 books first 📖

A couple of things I wanted to check:

Do rereads count?

Also, I track mine on Goodreads and the counts are almost always the same as Amazon so I could just use the pages from there?

Thanks

Yes Good Reads is totally fine!

Originally posted by: ExoticDisaster

A silly pilly question - Does wattpad stories count

Actually I have the same question because I tend to go into a spree of reading wattpad fictions too.

We're trying to figure out a way to have a different parameter to log so we can include online fiction too. Any suggestions?

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

We're trying to figure out a way to have a different parameter to log so we can include online fiction too. Any suggestions?

I suggested word count in my prev reply

since there are some fictions which have <10 chapters but the chapters are long enough to be counted upto 15-20 chapters. while some have some 500+ chapters with very less word count

Originally posted by: Moonstique

I suggested word count in my prev reply

since there are some fictions which have <10 chapters but the chapters are long enough to be counted upto 15-20 chapters. while some have some 500+ chapters with very less word count

Originally posted by: DreamOfEndless

Awesome!

Please let us know your pace of reading so that we can assign teams.

I read around 15-25 books a month on average, but if we're excluding comics and graphic novels, then most likely I'm not reading more than 20 books.

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

We're trying to figure out a way to have a different parameter to log so we can include online fiction too. Any suggestions?

I would like to offer some.

Wattpad or any online fiction will mostly have chapters in story. I think stories that are one shots ( in case they are less than, say 6000 words ) and two shots can be discounted ( only because it doesn’t have the words that a novel has ) Maybe you can consider an online fiction with at least 4+ chapters as a book ?

Second criteria would be word count. Maybe you can consider/ keep a threshold after which it would be considered a book. A normal book published in Amazon will have more than 30,000 + words. ( novellas might have even 10,000– in which case it can be mentioned as such explicitly )

Reading hours : this can be a criteria but I’m afraid it changes from person to person. What I might read in 10 minutes might take another person 12 or 8 to do so.

So in my humble opinion, the first two would be a good criteria.

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Do all these sites have a word count?

Not really but it's not difficult to know the word count. esp if these are posted on wattpad/ao3/wordpress. word count extensions can be used

Hi, thanks for inviting me.

I read slowly and don't have time to read multiple books.

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

That's why we said look at the Amazon page count and put down those page numbers. Most books can be found there or on Good Reads, the page numbers will differ slightly based on the format you read in

Thats if I read a whole book in April. But I have already started so many books, and if I continue to read those into April, is there any way to count page numbers of specific chapters?