Challenges 2006

NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER CHALLENGE!!!! By Danesnboxers (signed up 01/05/06)
Welcome to the challenge!!!
Each Saturday a book cover is posted as the theme for the coming week. The object is to find books that you have with the themed cover for the week and wild release them. This year along the way there will be general and more specific covers to release. Some of them will be easy ie. Trees, some of them will be specific colors and some may even be specific words (OK not hard words that are rare).

Saturday is overlap day either the previous week's cover can be released or the new cover can be released.
All releases must be posted on this thread.
This coming Saturday, 1/7/06 the first cover will be announced.
Since Chryso retired (our beloved chart maker who has always done an awesome job) I am not real HTML savvy but I have a plan. At the end of every week you will turn in your release total for that week to me. Yes, we are doing this on the honor system. Since you have to post your releases here, I figure as competitive as some of you are you'll will keep each other honest! LOL.
I will keep the totals and probably create a website so that everyone can follow the progress. It just won't have a chart per se' on it.
Danesnboxers

WEEK 1 (1/7/06) A Beach (includes sand & water)
WEEK 2 (1/14/06) A movie star or famous person in history. - photo type not a drawing.
WEEK 3 (1/21/06) Red- either background or lettering or the word "red" in the title
WEEK 4 (1/28/06) A person with sunglasses on.
WEEK 5 (2/4/06) A car, part of or whole
WEEK 6 (2/11) A dead body (human) or the word(s) Death or Dead in the title.
WEEK 7 (2/18) A person(s) wielding a sword.
WEEK 8 (2/25) Flowers
WEEK 9 (3/4) Orange, either background, word or the fruit
WEEK 10 (3/11) A mask
WEEK 11 (3/18) Dancing person(s)
WEEK 12 (3/25) A Bridge, the word Bridge or the authors name is Bridge(s)
WEEK 13 (4/1) A piece of dinnerware.



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2006 Pages Read Challenge by janey-canuck (signed up 01/05/06)
On the heels of mwade78's Sept-to-Dec pages read challenge, I'm starting a 2006 pages read challenge.
I'm hoping to read 30,000 pages this year and would love to have some people join me to also keep track of how many pages they read. If you are interested in seeing what the challenge looked like for September to December, you can see it here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/3196191
Feel free to post here or PM me with your expected number of pages and any ideas or suggestions you have for keeping track of pages read or how to make the challenge better!

Logging Page


23,272/25,000
93.49%

Updated 12.11.2006


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Olympic Challenge (2006-2008) by hendertuckian (signed up 2/21/06)
Not enough letters in the alphabet to keep you reading all year?
Everybody keeps naming the same good books you have already read?
Reading the same genre and can't seem to get out of the rut?
Then join us for OLYMPIC CHALLENGE!
The goal is to read one author's work from the 202 participating countries by Summer Olympic Games by 2008.
I will use my bookshelf to post all countries listed and suggested authors but the list is open to other authors or works. The only requirement is the author must be a citizen or a permanent resident of that country (or was if deceased).
Who will carry this torch with us?

US - Nothing is Impossible by Christopher Reeve
Eng - Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Canada - Sunday's Child by Edward O. Phillips

Updated 12.08.2006

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2006 Keep Them Moving Release Challenge by guinaveve

This was a challenge that I hosted this year for the months of October and November. I asked all participants if they had any interest in making it a year long challenge for 2006 and all were interested. Maybe more will join in. The rules are the same as they were for that challenge, so I am just going to C&P the same ones here edited a bit--
I have made it my goal all this year to read as many books given to me by other BCers as possible and then move them on. I wasn't hoarding by any means, I gave out as many as I got surely. I still like to thank the kind BCers who passed books along to me by trading, bookrelays, wild releasing, and RABCKs by continuing the books' journeys. In other words I want to "Keep Them Moving."
Would anyone like to join me in this challenge throughout 2006? Please reply here.
The rules-
1. The book must be read entirely, not partially. It also must be something you read in 2006, not something previously read that has been sitting waiting to be released.
2. The release can be in any manner you see fit- wild release, relay, ring, ray, box, trade, RABCK, ect.
3. The book must not be originally registered by you, but another BCer. It doesn't matter how you got it (ring, ray, box, relay, wild release, trade, RABCK, ect) as long as you were not the first to register it.
4. Please post links to each book after you read and release it. I will start a thread on Jan. 1 for this purpose. Don't post them here, I am just getting participants here.
5. When the challenge is over I will randomly choose one person participating in the challenge to recieve a book of their choice amongst my available books on my BC shelf. If I get a lot of participants for this challenge, I may add more free books or something else if I can think of anything.
6. Enjoy!!!
I made this icon for the releases. Here is the journal entry which includes the icon:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/2897864
You can save it to your own computer to use for this challenge if you like.


#1 Hearst Castle Coloring Book Ring
#2 Designs for Coloring: Tropical Fish BookRing
#3 Luciano's Luck (bookbox)
#4 New Mexico (bookbox)
#5 Murder at Ford's Theater (bookbox)
#6 Propeller One-Way Night Coach (bookbox)
#7 The Special Guest: A Christmas Story (bookbox)
#8 All Around the Town (bookbox)
#9 One Red Rose (bookbox)
#10 Wyoming (wild)
#11 A Map of the World (wild)
#12 Deck the Halls (wild)
#13 Friends Reunited - (bookring)
#14 Sword of Orion (relay)
#15 Thursdays at Eight (Bookring)
#16 The Miracles of Santo Fico (Bookring)
#17 The Tenko Club (Bookring)
#18 Captivated (Book Relay)
#19 Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Book Relay)
#20 Why Is My Custard Lumpy?: An Other Culinary Conuudrums (Bookring)
#21 Exhibitionism(Bookring)
#22 Wicked (BookRay)
#23 Brokeback Mountain (Bookring)
#24 Not on the Label What Really Goes into the Food on Your Place (RABCK)
#25 Brokeback Mountain (Bookring)
#26 Here on Earth(Relay- VBB)
#27 Nothing is Impossible(Virtual Bookbox)
#28 The Jane Austen Book Club(Relay - VBB)
#29 Scarlet Feather(Relay)
#30 Why do Men Have Nipples?(Relay-Audio VBB)
#31 CSI: Double Dealer(Bookring)
#32 Brick Lane(Bookring)
#33 LT's Theory of Pets(Relay-Audio VBB)
#34 The Good Body(Relay-Audio VBB)
#35 Smart Women (Bookring)
#36 The Book of Virtues (Relay - Audio VBB)
#37 Going Home (Steel Book Spiral)
#38 Sleeping Arrangements (Bookring)
#39 Air Disaster (Bookring)
#40 The Women Who Loved Reindeer (Bookring)
#41 Confessions of a Shopaholic(Relay- Audio VBB)
#42 Murder in the Calais Coach (Spiral)
#43 A Paper Life (Relay - Audio VBB)
#44 Eve Green (Bookring)
#45 The Rescue (BookRay)
#46 Expat (BookRing)
#47 Poetry Book (BookRing)
#48 Sunday's Child (BookRay)
#49 Celtic Mosiac Colorng Book (BookRing)
#50 As Always, Jack(BookRing)

Updated 12.24.2006

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PERSONAL CHALLENGE

Alphabet Reading Challenge 2006 (By Author)
A –Allen, Lee & Donna – The Special Guest: A Christmas Story (read/released)
B - Bennett, William - The Book of Virtues (read/released)
C – Clark, Mary Higgins – All Around the Town (read/released)
D - deKay, James T. - The Left-Handed Book
E – Evanovich, Janet – Full House (read/released)
F – Ferris, Monica – Framed in Lace (read/returned)
G – Garwood, Julie – One Red Rose (read/released)
H -
I -
J -
K – Kent, Debra – The Diary of V Series (read)
L - Leyner, Mark & Billy Goldman - Why Do Men Have Nipples? (read/released)
M - Macomber, Debbie - Thursdays at Eight (read/released)
N - Noble, Elizabeth - The Kenko Club (read/released)
O - O'Neal, Tatum - A Paper Life (read/released)
P - Proulx, Annie - Brokeback Mountain (Read/Released)
Q -
R – Reeve, Christopher – Nothing is Impossible (read/released)
S - Steel, Danielle - The Wedding (read)
T – Truman, Margaret – Murder at the Kennedy Center (read/released)
U -
V - Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (read)
W - Weisenberg, Laura - The Devil Wears Prada (read/Released)
X -
Y -
Z -


Updated 11.27.2006

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PERSONAL CHALLENGE

Alphabet Reading Challenge 2006 (By Title)
A – All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
B - Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
C – Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
D - The Diary of V Series by Debra Kent
E – Exhibitionism by Toby Litt
F – Framed in Lace by Monica Ferris
G – The Good Body by Eve Ensler
H - Hanging by a Thread by Monica Ferris
I -
J - Jackie, Ethel and Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli
K –
L - Leap of Faith by Danielle Steel
M - Murder at the Kennedy Center by Margaret Truman
N - Nothing is Impossible by Christopher Reeve
O - One Red Rose by Julie Garwood
P - Propeller - One Way Night Coach by John Travolta
Q -
R –
S - The Special Guest: A Christmas Story by Lee & Donna Allen
T – Thursdays at Eight by Debbie Macomber
U -
V -
W - The Wedding by Danielle Steel
X -
Y -
Z -


Updated 10.25.2006

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Race to 3 Million Books Registered Challenge by solittletime (signed up 2/21/06


Technically, this announcement doesn’t even belong in the Release Challenges Forum, as it is a Registration Challenge, but since I know that you are used to and up for being Challenged, I think you are the ones to help me out. (As evidenced by my WATCH THIS SPACE announcement making the Hot Threads with no hint of what was coming!) I will x-post this to Announcements and Activists, but the activity will be right here.
I am hosting the Race to Three Million Registered Books Challenge, starting right now.

But wait, DON'T run off and start registering books before you read these rules:

1 – You may ONLY register real BOOKS for this challenge, not pamphlets, magazines, booklets, catalogues, DVDs, blank notebooks, phone books, your kid’s school papers, puppies, photographs, photo albums, or anything else except REAL, HONEST, BOOKS (including Audio books). Postcard books are only allowed as a whole intact book, not as individual postcard pages. See the official FAQs on the site: http://www.bookcrossing.com/faqs#5

2 – Since results will be determined by the difference in number of registered books on your bookshelf when you sign up compared to the number when the contest ends, it is better to sign up now. It is not the total number of registered books on your bookshelf, it is only the number registered AFTER you sign up that counts. (This puts everyone on an equal footing to start, whether you have already registered 10,000 books or you just joined BookCrossing today.)

3 – The goal (and I don’t know if we have time to make it or not, but let’s give it our best shot) is to register 3 million real BOOKS by midnight BookCrossing time on the 5-year anniversary of this site, April 17, 2006. I am emphasizing that we only register BOOKS because this was a real sore spot in prior Registration Challenges. We do not want inflated numbers, we only want real BOOKS registered. There is no reading or releasing requirement to this Challenge, so you can register your books now even if you do not want to read and/or release them at this time.

NOTE--UPDATED: Although there is no requirement to release your book to join this Challenge, it has to be a book that you could release if you wanted to--in other words, NO LIBRARY BOOKS, or books belonging to friends, etc. If you register it, it has to belong to you.

4 – To sign up, just post in this forum thread your beginning number of books registered as listed on your BookCrossing profile at the time you post.

5 – We may, or may not, have a beautiful chart to keep track. I will periodically post how we are doing in this thread, and maybe on my bookshelf. Please do not make a forum post every time you register a book. Give us your number when you sign up, then post each time you have registered another 25 books. (But sign up even if you don’t know if you can register very many, every book registered helps towards our goal!)

6 – There will be prizes. Since part of my goal is to support and strengthen BookCrossing, all prizes will also support the site (such as gift certificates from the Supply Store). Complete details of prizes will be posted later in the week, but don’t wait to sign up until then, because as I said, it’s the increase in the number of books you have registered that counts, so you should post your beginning number of books registered as soon as possible, then all books you register after that will count. I am not going to backtrack to count how many on your bookshelf were registered between the time of this announcement and the time you sign up. ONLY those registered after you sign up count for this Challenge.

7 – There is a wonderful Challenge logo designed for us by Wyando that you can put in your initial journal entry, if you want to, like this: http://bookcrossing.com/---/J_5709505. It can be downloaded here: http://www.honchun.com/---/challenge-logos. Using the logo or indicating in words that the book was registered for this Challenge is not required however.


8 – Questions? Post here or PM me.

As of right now, the site has 2,745,397 books registered. We have 57 days to make that 3,000,000.

Ready, set, GO!


Started with 1,369 (2/21/2006)

Registered 10 (02/21/06)
Registered 27 (02/22/06)
Registered 19 (02/23/06)
Registered 12 (02/24/06)
Registered 9 (02/27/06)
Registered 2 (03/03/06)
Registered 12 (03/07/06)
Registered 25 (03/08/06)
Registered 4 (03/13/06)
Registered 6 (03/15/06)
Registered 11 (03/16/06)
Registered 34 (03/20/06)
Registered 9 (03/27/06)
Registered 26 (03/28/06)
Registered 7 (03/29/06)
Registered 43 (03/30/06)
Registered 32 (03/31/06)
Registered 11 (04/03/06)
Registered 68 (04/04/06)
Registered 19 (04/05/06)
Registered 6 (04/06/06)
Registered 40 (04/07/06)
Registered 63 (04/10/06)
Registered 6 (04/14/06)


Ended with 1,878 (509 books registered) (4/17/2006)

Updated 04.18.2006

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Accomplishments for the March 2006 Oh, the Places We Can Go Release Challenge by Secretariat

The 2006 March Oh, the Places We Can Go Challenge begins at 12:01 a.m. on March 1 wherever you live and ends at 12:00 p.m. on March 31 wherever you liv.
Rules: Release at least 15 books with titles that include the name of one or more major/well-known city, state, province, country, island, continent, or planet. [Note: these must be well known places—i.e. Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Auckland, Sydney, etc. For instance: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Alas Babylon or Amsterdam.] Oceans and Seas are okay, but, no rivers, lakes, or other interesting places to visit will be counted unless the name is also a city, state, province, country, or planet (e.g., Gorky Park and The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson would not be acceptable because though both Gorky Park and the Jefferson Memorial are famous places, they are not a city, state, etc.). I have amended my rules to allow the word "Space" to be used and for places such as Yellowstone National Park, Mt. Rushmore, and the Everglades. There may be no city with those names, but the places are so large and so famous it seemed right to include them. However, no “fantasy” places (i.e., Atlantis, Hell, Heaven, Eden, etc.) are allowed. At least 10 releases per set must be wild releases. The other 5 may be OBCZ or controlled releases. Extra credit will be awarded for clever or themed releases. Prizes will be awarded at the completion.

#1 New Mexico (bookbox)
#2 Murder at Ford's Theater (bookbox)
#3 Wyoming (wild)
#4 Montana Wife (Wild)
#5 The Road to Gandolfo (Relay)

UPDATED 03/28/2006



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Change the World Challenge- with prize-Jan to June 2006 - by ThanksMom (signed up 12/13/05)

If you meet the challenge I will send you a 2006 Bookcrossing patch, free and clear. The patch has the tagline "Books Change People: People Change the World."
How many books? 6 minimum

When? Between 1st Jan 2006 and 30th June 30 2006

What need you do? Send or release books in at least 6 different countries. The book should have a goal of making some sort of change in the finder/recipient. For example, sending a science fiction book to a bookcrosser who swears they hate science fiction would qualify. Sending a book about overcoming depression to a bookcrosser posting about depression is good. Wild releasing some sort of inspirational book would work, too.

Any restrictions?
The book may NOT be part of a ring/ray/bookbox but can travel as a surprise RABCK along with a ring or ray book.
Separating the UK is not in the spirit of the challenge. Neither is separating Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. from the US. You get the drift?
This is a new challenge. You need to send/release books during the Jan to June period, sorry, previous good deeds don't apply to this challenge.

Go forth and do good!

Thanks,
Mom

1a. 404 Self Improvement Tips (Portugal)
1b. Escape Routes: For People Who Feel Trapped in Life's Hills (Portugal)
2. HTML: The Definiative Guide (Ethiopia)
3. HTML for the World Wide Web (Bosnia & Herzegvina)
4. Full House (French Giana)
5. Don’t Stress! How to Keep Life’s Problems Little(Algeria)
6. International Recipe Sampler (Liechtenstein)
7a. The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind caught by kiwijan (at the NZ Convention)
7b. Silver Mist by Sandra Sanford caught by Pixette (at the NZ Convention)
8. The Power of Mind Mapping (United Kingdom)


Updated 03.28.2006
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Books by the Numbers 2006 Part 1 (Jan-June 2006) by suefitz
Most of you have heard or maybe done past by the number challenges.
I was thinking of reading by the numbers.
When? Between 1st Jan 2006 and 30th June 30 2006
What need you do? For the first half of the year read a books with the numbers 1-100 in the title. There will be a separate BCID # for this challenge. Once you sign up you will received the ID.
Any restrictions?
The book may NOT be part of a ring/ray.
Points/Prizes to be given:
Read book you get 5 points
Read & Release the book 10 points.
Highest point total will win a prize from the Bookcrossing store.
Have fun!!!!!

#1 One Red Rose by Julie Garwood (Read & Released)
#2 Thursdays at Eight by Debbie Macomber (Read & Released)

Updated 05.19.2006
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MTBR Challenge – 1/06 – 7/06 by T02S03B11D20