# Reading Dopers: anyone doing the book challenges floating around?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-dopers-anyone-doing-the-book-challenges-floating-around/523362 "2010-01-02T02:37:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-dopers-anyone-doing-the-book-challenges-floating-around/523362/1 "2010-01-02T02:37:07Z")

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Every January book bloggers issue various reading challenges for fun. Have you seen some that look good? Are you joining any?

I’m doing [the Tournament of Reading](http://chikune.com/blog/?p=1956) and [52 books in 52 weeks](http://www.read52booksin52weeks.com/).

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**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-dopers-anyone-doing-the-book-challenges-floating-around/523362/2 "2010-01-02T23:35:02Z")

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I probably should, I’m just real bad at keeping track of them. I tend to load a bunch of books on my ebook reader and just plow through them. Last year I had to adjust my numbers because I read some insanely large books. Usually you dividthe the pages of the book by 300 to decide how many books it counts as.

I find the challenges are good for making me aware of how much I read. I’d never even thought about it before.

I’m on goodreads and librarything participated in LT’s challenge last year. I should sign up for another. So, yes. 🙂

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-dopers-anyone-doing-the-book-challenges-floating-around/523362/3 "2010-01-03T00:28:02Z")

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I start with good intentions but end up reading anything I feel like. Last year’s challenge was to read one book from every year, starting in the 1830’s. I knew I couldn’t read 180 books in a year, but I went to Wiki to find the books, made a list, printed it, set it aside and forgot about it. 🙂

This year I’m gonna just continue my personal challenge to read (or at least try) all the books in my impulse closet, and a few more classics.