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Hello I'm new here. My name is John and I'm from Buffalo, NY. Not sure if I'm doing this right. There were no introduction threads, I could find. I have a question about the Blue Fairy Book Kindle edition. Most of my reading is on my Kindle due to being able to change font. My question is according to my Kindle I'm on page 333 of 713 pages. But on the Kindle book that I downloaded from this site it says there is only 300+ pages. Any help is appreciated.

If I did this wrong then please delete.

Hello John,

We are open to new threads and an introduction thread is perfectly appropriate. I may adjust the title of this thread to suggest that. I am also from the Buffalo Area.

The main active threads are housed within the "2014 Challenge (Current)" discussion. There is one thread for logging books this year, one for us to post monthly themes, and two for each of the reading groups this month (note that we keep those active into the next month to give people time to read them).

When you log a book the group rules for logging a book should appear next to the text block. Basically it is Title, Author, Year of publication (original if possible), Number of pages. We are also asking for location (General state or country) in at least 1-2 posts just so that we can track the global reach of the group this year when we run the year end stats.

If you wanted to discuss the Blue fairy book you can select the blue fairy group thread where there are a few comments already.

To answer your other question. I also read the kindle version of the Blue fairy book. It appears on Amazon as about 713 pages. So if you are reading the free kindle book from amazon those page numbers are correct. Amazon took the "real" page numbers from a print version of the book. There are variations in page numbers based on font size, edition etc... in the paperback and ebook world. So if you downloaded the version from Manybooks.net for instance it says that the total pages are 363. But in reality both contain the same stories, so it is somewhat subjective.

Hope that helps.

Thank you for the answers. I was also wondering if there is a place to log all books one has finished for the year? I do not just read classic books but a lot of Puritan,religious books, military, and other types.

Thanks.

Hey all, it's one of your other moderators - David here in sunny (but painfully dry) California (SF Bay Area).

John thanks for starting the thread here. There is very little you can do that would be bad for the group, so thanks for taking the initiative.

As far as logging your books, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ does the job very well for me. You can click on your profile, then click on "stats" and you will see a bar chart showing how many books you read for each year. You can click on any year and see a pie chart showing what type of books you've read based on your bookshelves. It works well as long as you are including the completion date when you mark a book as "read" - you can also see page numbers, which I think is another great feature. I hope that kinda-sorta answered your question.

Hello David, thanks for the information. That is good where I'm able to find the information. I usually write it down but always end up not being able to find it again. Thanks.

I have another question. My stats say I have read 7 books this year for a total of 1,234 pages. But I have added them all up and it comes to 2,165 pages. Any reason for this? Even the Kindle books have total pages. Thanks.

The differences between your books and the ones you log on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ is the edition. When you look for a book only the default edition is listed. If that isn't the exact edition there may be differences in page numbers which will explain the variance in calculations. There is an all editions link that should allow you to select the specific edition you read (including Amazon Kindle editions).

I think John is right. Unfortunately with the classics you often need to sift through 1000 or more editions of some titles to find the right one. However they do allow you to limit by format, which (esp. with Kindle eds) should help a great deal. One annoyance I have is that it seems the consensus of the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ librarians is to add every last page of a book regardless of pagination (which flies in the face of proper bibliographical description). So all the roman numeral stuff is rolled into the total pagination. Also, for nonfiction readers, if your book has a ton of endnotes, all of that gets counted. This causes your "total pages read" number to inflate, so I usually take that number with a big grain of salt.

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To our wonderful moderators I just say, your work for this group is much appreciated by me. Also, I see talk about pages read but as 90% of my reading is from audiobooks I will list as hours/minutes; I hope that doesn't mess your logging system up.

I hope you all enjoy your day...I think its perfect weather for tea and a story.

Welcome to the group, John!

Since I set an annual goal for total books read, I've started keeping a shelf for each year. If that total doesn't match my hard copy (I still like pencil & paper) I go to my read shelf and locate the one(s) I forgot to shelve on the current year. Then I can check at a glance.