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Please post your general questions about the Winter 2017 Challenge here. Specific questions about individual tasks should be posted in the Help Threads for those tasks. You may find answers to some questions in FAQs.

Tasks will begin to be posted on 11/18.

This may be a very silly question but I would kick myself if I didn't ask! I am hoping this is the right place.

The question is in regards to Big Book tickets. For the Winter season , I will be reading The Fiery Cross which has 1443 pages. I know that BB tickets are >500 = 1 ticket, >750 = 2 tickets & >1000 = 3 tickets. I am wondering if this keeps going the bigger the book gets i.e. >1250 = 4 tickets or if 3 tickets is the maximum you can get for each book.

Thanks in advance!

Bianca wrote: "This may be a very silly question but I would kick myself if I didn't ask! I am hoping this is the right place.

The question is in regards to Big Book tickets. For the Winter season , I will be r..."

3 tickets is the maximum.

Thanks Dimrose! :)

For Graphic Novels most titles give the series:title of the volume as the GR entry i.e Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere
Does this then follow the FAQ rules that the series is actually the "title" and the title is the "subtitle"?

I need a librarian's help.
I have this book, Let Darkness Bury the Dead by Maureen Jennings in my hot little hand and it has 330 pages in it, but the GoodReads info does not list the number of pages. Could some kind librarian help me out and add this information?
Thanks,
Andy

Andy wrote: "I need a librarian's help.
I have this book, Let Darkness Bury the Dead by Maureen Jennings in my hot little hand and it has 330 pages in it, but the GoodReads info..."

Worldcat agrees. Done.

Thank,
Andy

Nicola wrote: "For Graphic Novels most titles give the series:title of the volume as the GR entry i.e Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere
Does this then follow the FAQ rules that the series is..."

We understand that graphic novels often have the series title before the colon. We use the GR book record title as it appears for all books. The words that appear before the colon are the title and the words that appear after the colon are the subtitle.

Thanks DImrose. Had to check this was the case since we have quite a few tasks specifically saying "title only" this time around and i didn't want you and the other mods having to query me in the problems thread because i've used the after colon as the title :)

can a mod check in with task 20.8 - since it opened the task owner has been back to check on verification of/approve any books (yes, I know its only been 2 days) - thanks

I think this is an omnibus question, more than anything else.

I'm planning to re-read Lord of the Rings, but given its a long book, I'm hoping to fit it into one of the higher point tasks. Various of those have listopias, but when I check them, they often specifically include the first part, i.e. The Fellowship of the Ring, but not the whole book (for example, at least two of the 50.1 options have this problem). So I had a couple of questions.

1. Could I read and claim the whole book to satisfy a task which only has the first part on the list (big book tickets and all)?

or

2. Could it be used as an omnibus, with the three parts claimed separately (although sadly without the big book ticket in that case). And if so, could different parts be used in the same task: for example, 30.5 option 3, as Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King would fit the "change one letter to get a new word" criteria.

Trish wrote: "I think this is an omnibus question, more than anything else.

I'm planning to re-read Lord of the Rings, but given its a long book, I'm hoping to fit it into one of the higher point tasks. Variou..."

When the task calls for a book on the listopia, that's what is required for the task, not a variation on the book listed.

You can use the individual books from Lord of the Rings, since those have all been published separately. And it doesn't matter whether you're using them for different tasks or different parts of the same task.

Sandy wrote: "When the task calls for a book on the listopia, that's what is required for the task, not a variation on the book listed.

You can use the individual books from Lord of the Rings, since those have all been published separately. And it doesn't matter whether you're using them for different tasks or different parts of the same task. "

Thanks for the clarification - I'm so used to thinking of it as one book, rather than three.

Just want to check whether a book meets the page count requirement. If I read the ebook of No One Writes to the Colonel it has 82 pages, but the most popular MMPB (in Spanish) is El coronel no tiene quien le escriba which is 152 pages. Does that mean the book is okay for this challenge?

Bryony wrote: "Just want to check whether a book meets the page count requirement. If I read the ebook of No One Writes to the Colonel it has 82 pages, but the most popular MMPB (in Spanish) is [b..."

yes