Welcome to the 100 Books Club 2006!

Some of us have a goal (or dream) of reading 100 books (or 25,000 pages, for those of us who tend to read thick books) in a year.
The rest of us are just curious about how many books we (and other people) actually read in a year.

The requirements for membership are very simple. Actually, I think I just listed them!

This is what I'm talking about... 100 Books Club

If you'd like to join, shoot me an e-mail at: writergal @ bookwyrm.us
Give me the following information:
The name you want me to use for your listing. (Your choice, but first come, first served if there are duplicates.)

First choice, a little bio to introduce yourself. It can include links to your personal site or sites, so you won't be limited to one link. Check out the bio page to see what others have said, or use this Bio Questions form for ideas. (If you are a returning member and don't have any changes to make, I will just use the bio you gave in 2005.) Second choice, a link to your website or blog. (Neither of these is necessary if you'd rather not give out any information about yourself.)

The number of books and/or pages you've read so far in 2006. (If you haven't been keeping count of pages but would like to, Barnes and Noble gives the number of pages in a book. I assume Amazon.com does as well.)
Note: If you are part way through a book when the year changes over, you can only count books in the year they are finished, but if you are keeping a page count, you can divide the pages and give me the page count for each year.

Change from 2005: The "personal goal" thing didn't seem to really take off, so I'm going to scrap that. However, please notice that very few people actually read 100 books! The goal is to challenge yourself to see how many books you can read in a year. I do encourage you to set yourself a realistic personal goal.

Then you contact me when you finish a book and have me update your count. (It helps if you include your username, especially if you don't update often.) I will only accept updates sent to the above e-mail address! I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but it's just too hard to keep track of stats coming in from several different sources, and I'd like to have them all in one place. Of course, if you're super-lazy, nothing will happen if you don't update your count. But what's the point of joining if you don't keep score? If you don't want to show off your count, there's nothing stopping you from coming back here to read other people's counts even if you don't join.

For the record, Talking Books or books on tape users are welcome! Whether you are reading or being read to, you are still consuming books.

I would prefer that you count only books you actually read cover to cover, not just skim for certain information, and only books, not magazines,  but I am not going to be the Book Police and question what you tell me you've read. (Remember, even if you don't read an entire book, you can count the pages you did read!)

Also for the record, I always enjoy hearing about what you're reading, but you aren't required to "prove" what you've read by listing the titles.
I will still accept either just your updated totals or the number of books/pages you want me to add to your recorded total. (I'm lazy--I prefer it if you just give me your updated totals, but some people enjoy letting me do the math and just seeing the new count appear by their name. That's fine, too.) 

Notice!

The 2005 list will remain up for a little while into the new year to give everybody a chance to get in their final counts and have them showing for awhile and to give me time to get the 2006 page set up. Please go ahead and sign up anyway and start sending updates as soon as you want in 2006. They will still be recorded and when the page comes up, it will have your current numbers, and there will be a link to the 2005 page, which will be archived.

Also... I am not going to assume anybody wants to stay with this, so I'm asking the existing members to e-mail me and let me know if they want to continue. You can keep the same username (still first come, first served) or change it to something else, but if you want people to know how you did in 2005, you might want to consider either keeping it or changing your 2005 username before the end of the year, because I will not be making any username changes to the 2005 list after the end of the year (though I will remove links if requested). (As with 2005, I will make 2006 username and/or link changes upon request at any time during the year.)