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The Ultimate Reading Race
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Attention all readers! As a part of the revive BaB movement, I decided it was my job to create another BaB thread.
So, introducing the Ultimate CBer Reading Race! Here's how it will work:
Everyone who wants to participate, leave a comment on this thread. Everyone has to have entered by September 1st. I will possibly accept latecomers if you beg and plead enough.
Then, from September 2nd - September 20th, everyone has to read as many pages as possible! Real books only, please, not picture books or pages with gargantuan fonts. The person who has read the most pages by the end date is the winner! Then they set the next deadline, and we continue on in this fashion.
Remember, you are on the honor system here! No saying that you read 7,000 pages when you really read 100. I trust my fellow CBers to be honest. We can also use this thread to discuss what books we are reading and how long those books are.
I really hope this takes off. On an unrelated note, this is the first thread I've ever made on BaB.
Anyway, good luck, and happy racing!
submitted by Majestic Mary, age 1 eternity, Majestopia
(August 18, 2020 - 1:19 pm)
(August 18, 2020 - 1:19 pm)
Ooh, I'll participate! I generally read a lot, but I've been in kind of a slump lately since I can't, like, go to the library and browse. (I think my local libraries are doing pick-ups, but that requires, like, figuring out what books I want to read, and seeing if the library has them, and asking my mom to place a hold on them, and then bugging my mom to make sure she actually goes and picks them up, so...)
Also, thanks everyone for joining "my" movement! I didn't think it was going to take off this much. :)
(August 18, 2020 - 2:54 pm)
(August 18, 2020 - 3:44 pm)
Yay, I'll definitely join! This kind of reminds me of the thing we had in elementary school where the librarian would challenge us to read as many pages over the summer as we could and there were prizes and stuff.
(August 18, 2020 - 3:51 pm)
I'll try to do this, although I'm normally really bad at tracking my reading. Then again, all of the reading contests I've participated in before were about time, not pages, so maybe this will be easier.
And congratulations on your first BaB thread, MM!
(August 18, 2020 - 3:55 pm)
Yay, people are actually joining! Anyway, I just thought that we should have a prize. Would any artists out there like to loan their talents to our winners? You could draw a podium with the top three or something. Please let me know!
also, I WILL be participating.
(August 18, 2020 - 4:14 pm)
Ooh yes definitely participating. I love a good challenge.
(August 18, 2020 - 4:21 pm)
Oh, I'd love to participate!
(August 18, 2020 - 4:50 pm)
Wo-hoo! I'm SOO in! I'm not going outside for the longest time. Oh, and does school reading count? I ask it does not.
(August 18, 2020 - 5:54 pm)
I'll join! I'm a little worried I'll just forget to log pages, but I'll at least try. XD
I'm a fast reader, so I have a little hope.
(August 18, 2020 - 6:42 pm)
If you are reading a novel in school, that will count, however textbook/document reading will NOT count.
(August 19, 2020 - 10:38 am)
Sounds fun! Do we have to say what book the pages are from?
(August 19, 2020 - 11:26 am)
YESSS!!! I will winnnnnn.....
Well, maybe not. But I'll definitely try.
(August 20, 2020 - 10:02 am)
Okay so first, I'll enter.
Second, maybe for proof we can take a photo of the books and the last page number that shows how many pages there are? Admins? would we be allowed to do this?
If you take your own photo of a page of a physical book that you have, then you can post it. You just can't copy a picture of that book that you find online because those photographs were taken by professional photographers who known the rights to those images. Thanks for asking. -Admin
(August 20, 2020 - 12:09 pm)
I think we should definitely say what book we read and how many pages it was, but I don't think we desperately need to take pictures and whatnot.
(August 21, 2020 - 6:59 pm)
I love this idea and would definitely love to participate!
(August 20, 2020 - 7:21 pm)