Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

New readathon date, new announcements thread! Ok, maybe I am just feeling lazy and don't want to have to scroll through too long a thread, but it seemed a good time to start a new announcements thread. The old one is closed and archived.

Our 2021 Reverse Readathon went well, with some great bookish conversations and posts, and lots of books read. I hope everyone had fun and is looking forward to our next readathon, which will be

Saturday, October 23rd, starting at 8am EST

We'll have the sign up form up soon on the website, and pre-readathon challenges and activities will be popping up soon on all our favorite social media sites.

Fantastic. Thanks for starting this new thread

I need to confirm the start time. Is is 6am or 8am Eastern?

Lena wrote: "I need to confirm the start time. Is is 6am or 8am Eastern?"

8am EST

THANKS! 😊

Can you guys help me sign up please ? I can't do it myswlf

Reed wrote: "Can you guys help me sign up please ? I can't do it myswlf"

You sign up on the website here:
https://deweysreadathon.wordpress.com/

BUT if you don't want to officially sign up, you don't have to, you can jump in :)

We only have one more day till the readathon officially begins. I am going to keep the Abecedarian, States, and Countries games going during the readathon, though I may not be tallying everyone's contributions till the day after the readathon. Counting is surprisingly hard sometimes when one is sleep deprived. :)

The Bingo boards are available as links here and in the Announcements section of facebook.

I'll be setting up the co-mod hourly discussion folder soon. We'll have the traditional hour-long sprints at hours 1, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24, and I'll post the topics for all those as well, Now is a great time to dust off your old readathon logs in the For the Blogless folder, or make one if you don't have one yet. Be sure to choose the For the Blogless folder for your readathon logs' folder when you make new ones.

Enjoy your last day of pre-readathon prep time, and we'll dive in bright and early (we start at 6am for my time zone) on Saturday with our first reading sprint of the readathon. Oh, and we still have ~6 time slots left for co-mods, mostly in the second half of the readathon. If you've fancied the notion of becoming more officially involved with this readathon, being a co-mod for an hour or two is a nice step in that direction. :)

Thank you, Jamie!

If there is a bingo board, could you maybe send a link to it in a message to everyone? Would be nice, can’t find it anywhere. I always love the bingo most of all :D

M wrote: "If there is a bingo board, could you maybe send a link to it in a message to everyone? Would be nice, can’t find it anywhere. I always love the bingo most of all :D"

The Bingo board links are in the Bingo thread, which currently lives in the Pre-readathon folder. I'll be setting up the folders for the readathon itself shortly, There are 5 boards, including one for the pre-readathon and 4 that are designed to be used during the readathon. When I finish setting up the readathon folder for tomorrow, there will be a place in that folder for discussion about the boards.

Further update re- Bingo. I moved the thread for Bingo to the October 2021 Readathon folder. All the board links are there. I'll set up an actual folder for the boards by tonight, too, but in the meantime they should be easy enough to find now.

Our first readathon event for 2022, the Spring Readathon will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2022. We will, as always, start at 8am Eastern Time.

Ah, there's the date for the next one! thank you!

Jamie wrote: "Our first readathon event for 2022, the Spring Readathon will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2022. We will, as always, start at 8am Eastern Time."

Looking forward to it!

It might be overly optimistic, but I hope to join

Please please send messages when there are things happening in the group.

I'm in i have a lot of reading to catch up on

Elyse wrote: "Please please send messages when there are things happening in the group."

I did Elyse. I sent one out yesterday to everyone.

Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Please please send messages when there are things happening in the group."

I did Elyse. I sent one out yesterday to everyone."

Yes, thank you, Kelley! I'm sad I missed the mini readathon events over the winter. :(

Elyse wrote: "Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Please please send messages when there are things happening in the group."

I did Elyse. I sent one out yesterday to everyone."

Yes, thank you, Kelley! I'm sad I misse..."

Don't feel bad, I did too. I get notifications for everything in here but I get busy during the holidays with my second job so I didn't see them in time to participate either.

The dates for our remaining 2022 readathons are set.
Our 2022 Reverse Readathon will start at 8pm July 22 and run through 8pm July 23.
Our 2022 Fall Readathon will begin at 8am October 22, and end 8am October 23. (all official times are for the Eastern Timezone)

Thanks for moderating. Adding date to my calendar.

YES!! I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks Jamie!! It will be a birthday readathon for me in the fall.

Excellente that we have readathon dates for year. Thanks for keeping us updated Jaime.

Susan, I am leaving myself note about your birhday, just so I can wish you a happy one at the fallr readathon :-)

Oh you are thoughtful, Cynda!!

Yay, new dates! Added them to my calendar!

Yay! I have added them to our calendar. That way hopefully we will have little or nothing else to do! :)

Thank you for the news! Looking forward to the events

Added to my calendar. 8 PM EST on a Friday is going to be my 2 AM on that Saturday. It‘s going to be interesting to start in the middle of the night…

Jamie wrote: "The dates for our remaining 2022 readathons are set.
Our 2022 Reverse Readathon will start at 8pm July 22 and run through 8pm July 23.
Our 2022 Fall Readathon will begin at 8am October 22, and end..."

Awesome thanks!

Cathy wrote: "Added to my calendar. 8 PM EST on a Friday is going to be my 2 AM on that Saturday. It‘s going to be interesting to start in the middle of the night…"

No worries . Just show up and do what you can . An feel accomplished .

Will this group do something for the Reverse Readathon on the weekend of the 22nd of July?

Was wondering the same. It's three weeks and besides from the changed banner, not much news here.

Hadn‘t even noticed the banner, lol. I signed up and will definitely take part.

The Reverse is usually pretty low-key, a couple of discussions will get posted, but it's usually mostly quiet. Nothing like the usual April/October lead-up and fanfare.

Shame. For us Europeans this is the real challenge! And the usual ones are at "normal times".

Luckily I have a massive assignment from my book club, I could use the readathon to read through a lot of those. Hopefully!

Guess I also have to make my own bingo. :-p

I love the reverse read-a-thon - prefer it because I get my sleep out of the way early and when it begins, and ends, I'm in my "up" phase for awhile

I know they did pre-readathon challenges (hours/pages/books and prompts) before the last reverse. And they had a bingo board for the day of. I've been checking in for weeks hoping for some warm up games or challenges. (I've already finished the Inter-readathon challenges.)

I love the reverse readathon. It starts at 8pm for me which means that even if I fall asleep (which I always do) I wake up and still have half the readathon ahead of me.

@Elizabeth, Quite right you're girl :)
now I'll sleep in reverse readathon lol:-)

We'll be doing sprints and the InterReadathon Challenge as the pre-readathon activities for this reverse readathon. For folks who have already finished the Summer InterReadathon Challenge, here's a challenge extansion. You can write it out as a bingo board easily if you wish, but since Goodreads is not great for graphics and I am working out this while one on Goodreads, it is text only at the moment.

Row 1: Read something published in the 1960s.
Read something with a gray cover.
Read something set during winter or set someplace cold.

Row 2: Read something with only 1-3 characters in it.
Read something with poetry in it.
Read something recommended by, or read by a character in something else.

Row 3: Read something published before 1920.
Read something with a red cover.
Read a book you picked at random from a shelf of books.(Try not to cheat, but if your first try lands on something ridiculous you can try again, once.)

I hope this keeps everyone busy enough for the next couple weeks. Some of our pre-readathon activities for Fall will be posted within a week or so after the reverse readathon, and we'll be in full pre-readathon mode by mid August for that one.

_Jamie Barringer, your almost-ever-friendly readathon host. :)

Hi! The bio on Twitter and one of the announcement tweets says the starting time is 8pm, the sign up sheet says 8am though, which I think is correct but a lot of people are feeling mixed up now. Maybe change the bio and tweet the correct time?
Looking forward to the readathon!! 💜

Saturday the 22nd or Sunday the 23rd?

Taya wrote: "Saturday the 22nd or Sunday the 23rd?"

Our 2022 Fall Readathon will begin at 8am October 22, and end 8am October 23.

I still have to check what that means for CEST…

Cathy wrote: "I still have to check what that means for CEST…"

here is the start time tracker - you can plug in the EST time to find your time

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...

Thanks for the links, although I couldnt make those sites work the way I wanted them too. I used a more classic converter. Anyhow, Saturday will mostly not happen for me, I will probably only join the readathon on Sunday morning—it end at 2 p.m. on Sunday for me…

Where are the the sprint hours listed? Is there no separate thread for them? Will the hourly moderators just be hosting them in that thread instead?