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Someone had already suggested Addition, so think I will read that as its on my TBR list lol x

How funny - I just realized something. When you look at your books in List View, it sorts properly but usually with the wrong rating.
However, it appears that looking at your books in Main View - even though the sorting is wonky- all of the books are listed with their correct ratings. And even though the sorting is not exact, it does tend to group similar ratings together (lows on one end and highs on the other), so it's much easier to find applicable books from my TBR that way.

So far I've found*:

Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Sea - John Banville
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Saturday - Ian McEwan
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Unwind - Neal Shusterman
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Ghost Writer - John Harwood
The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson
Seeing - Jose Saramago
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
The Road to Wellville - T.C. Boyle
The Law of Similars - Chris Bohjalian
The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel - Katherine Center
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Songbook - Nick Hornby
A Thousand Acres: A Novel - Jane Smiley
The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
Baudolino - Umberto Eco
Man and Boy: A Novel - Tony Parsons
Thank You for All Things - Sandra Kring
Lost & Found - Jacqueline Sheehan
You Remind Me of Me - Dan Chaon
The Most Wanted - Jacquelyn Mitchard
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
The Moment Between - Nicole Baart
How to Be Lost: A Novel - Amanda Eyre Ward
Promise Not to Tell: A Novel - Jennifer McMahon
Summerland - Michael Chabon
The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
A Son of the Circus - My other husband John Irving
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
Look at Me: A Novel - Jennifer Egan
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Death of an Ordinary Man - Glen Duncan
A Good and Happy Child: A Novel - Justin Evans

*Obviously subject to change

For clarification, do the scores need to be only 3.45, 3.54, 4.35, and 4.53 or are scores using only two of the numbers (i.e. 3.44 or 3.53) acceptable?

(The examples I have posted so far have used all three numbers, so they are/were definitely within criteria at the time posted).

Diane wrote: "For clarification, do the scores need to be only 3.45, 3.54, 4.35, and 4.53 or are scores using only two of the numbers (i.e. 3.44 or 3.53) acceptable?

(The examples I have posted so far have us..."

Oh no, I didn't even realize this might be the case. :o( I'll edit my post if so.

Cynthia wrote: "...Read a book whose average rating is made up of the numbers 3,4, and 5 (i.e. no other number can be found in it so 3.34 is fine while 2.35 is not)..."

Liz wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "...Read a book whose average rating is made up of the numbers 3,4, and 5 (i.e. no other number can be found in it so 3.34 is fine while 2.35 is not)..."

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Cool! I totally missed that. Well that opens up a whole lot of new possibilities!

So 3.33 or 4.44 would also be fine?

Thanks for the adjustments, Cynthia! I also like the idea of "locking in" by reading a chapter or whatever now! I am a fan of knowing ALL of my books ahead of time. Except for the reading in bed one. I am leaving that one open to where the moment takes me!

Cait wrote: "How funny - I just realized something. When you look at your books in List View, it sorts properly but usually with the wrong rating.
However, it appears that looking at your books in Main View - ..."

Thank you for finding Specimen Days! It's on my TBR! I may go read a few pages right now to lock it in!!!!!

Oh gosh. I just noticed something that might help people if clarified. Every book has 2 ratings: one for the specific edition you own and one that is an average rating for all editions. Which one do you want us to go by?

Thanks!

two days ago I could have used "the chocolate war", but it already changed to 3.46... i think I am going to have to wait until I am ready to start reading to look or I will just get frustrated

Nicole wrote: "Oh gosh. I just noticed something that might help people if clarified. Every book has 2 ratings: one for the specific edition you own and one that is an average rating for all editions. Which one d..."
Use the average rating for all editions.

Cynthia wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Oh gosh. I just noticed something that might help people if clarified. Every book has 2 ratings: one for the specific edition you own and one that is an average rating for all editio..."

YAY! I am using Specimen Days then! I read 4 pages last night!

Manday wrote: "two days ago I could have used "the chocolate war", but it already changed to 3.46... i think I am going to have to wait until I am ready to start reading to look or I will just get frustrated "

You can use it for 5.5; it is on the popular list for 1974!

Okay, so.... Which page is going to show the average rating for ALL editions? Our TBR list? Searching for the book? ??

Sara � wrote: "Okay, so.... Which page is going to show the average rating for ALL editions? Our TBR list? Searching for the book? ??"

Yes

Errr.... that wasn't a yes/no question? Was that a BOTH for TBR/searching for a book?

If you go to a books page and look where it says book data - click on more data - it will break the ratings down into the overall average and average for that edition - you want the overall average.

Ah, I see. THANK YOU!!

Cynthia, I picked up The Russian Concubine from the library today and read the first chapter. It's rating, at the moment, is 3.54.
Just locking it in for the Challenge.

Thanks!

AH! I'm so excited. Just read the first page of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress for this because right now it is at 3.55!!

I also got

Jamie, Balzac is a charming little book. Hope you enjoy it!

kaion, I read The Memory Keeper's Daughter and it didn't like it as much as the movie. I only gave it 3 stars.

You're terribly generous, I only gave it 2.

For those who love YA, Ally Carter (from the Gallagher Girl Series) has a new book called Heist Society that has a 4.43 rating.

Bonnie wrote: "For those who love YA, Ally Carter (from the Gallagher Girl Series) has a new book called Heist Society that has a 4.43 rating."

I am planning on reading that for a book published in 2010. I started it and it was pretty good!

Reminds me to check my list!

With a rating of 3.54 I am reading The Double Blind by Chris Bohjalian

Does the overall book need to have this rating, or just our edition? For example I read the Green Mile, and my Mass Market Edition has a 3.44 rating. But The Book itself has a 3.25 rating. Will This work?

Matthew wrote: "Does the overall book need to have this rating, or just our edition? For example I read the Green Mile, and my Mass Market Edition has a 3.44 rating. But The Book itself has a 3.25 rating. Will Thi..."

It's the overall rating.

I'm going to read Late Nights on Air from my TBR list. Rating 3.45 as of today.

Cynthia, I'm changing my choice for this task. At the moment, I just can't seem to get into The Russian Concubine.
I started reading Haunted this morning. It has an average Rating of 3.34 right now. I think I'd rather read this book for this task.
Thanks!

ok, this task is *killing* me. I had a book that was perfect. By the time the library got it in, it had fallen below the required numbers. So I used it for something else. Now I am waiting because the book two after it in the series is at 4.32. I need one or two more people to give it a 5 star rating and I'm good to go. Ack!

Clearly, I have no life, as I stalk this book and its ratings. . .

All the books I have on my TBR rated with 3s, 4s, and 5s are either not out or ones that I really need to take off my TBR because I don't really want to read them... ;) I think I'll wait a while and check back...

A couple more books for people:


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Hi. I found a book that is a 4.40 rating. To be annoyingly technical, since this is really 4.4, would this work or does the rating have to have three decimal spots?

Thanks....

I am still confused on this. For the rating system has has to be at least two of the three numbers like 3.41, or 4.37 as long as two of the numbers are in there? Does it have to be in order like 3.4 or 4.5 ? I am really confused.

Jayme wrote: "I am still confused on this. For the rating system has has to be at least two of the three numbers like 3.41, or 4.37 as long as two of the numbers are in there? Does it have to be in order like 3...."

Only the numbers 3,4,5 can appear in the rating, but it's OK if a number is repeated like 3.34 or 4.55. But no other numbers can appear.

so if it is something like 4.04 it doesn't work?

Okay, I think I found a book off my tbr list: Witch and Wizard by James Patterson has a rating of 3.34

Devil Wears Prada has a rating of 3.43

Jayme wrote: "Devil Wears Prada has a rating of 3.43"

You've got it. Either of those would work.

as long as the rating doesn't change

Jayme- just read one page so that you can lock the rating in. You don't have to finish it, but as long as you started it while it was at that rating, the rating is locked in.

I don't have those on me atm

Leslie wrote: "Hi. I found a book that is a 4.40 rating. To be annoyingly technical, since this is really 4.4, would this work or does the rating have to have three decimal spots?

Thanks...."

Since the ratings are 3 numbers it should be all 3 numbers.

Cynthia wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Hi. I found a book that is a 4.40 rating. To be annoyingly technical, since this is really 4.4, would this work or does the rating have to have three decimal spots?

Thanks...."

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Thanks for the response Cynthia. I will just put the book somewhere else.