Reply to post #171 (show post):
Char - I would call an "exotic" animal, one which is not domesticated and is not livestock, and is not native to the United States (since I am U.S.-centric). Under that definition, I believe that your book would qualify.

Reply to post #174 (show post):
So it does or doesn't have to be on first page of goodreads shelves?

Reply to post #171 (show post):
Char. I don't know what that is so yeah sure LOL. Spooky cover.

Reply to post #177 (show post):
Debbie, it doesn't say anywhere that it has to be one the first page of the GR shelves, so I would assume it doesn't have to be on page 1.

Ruling on the genre issue:

Tags are shelves. Shelves are tags. The "genre" identification can either come from GR, or from some other place.

I looked back at the categories. The genre "tags" or "shelves" that I identified in the specific tasks include:

Frontierland 1: western
Fantasyland 7: fantasy or fairy tale
New Orleans 19: gothic or horror
Adventureland 26: adventure or thriller
Paradise Pier 28: steampunk
Paradise Pier 29: suspense
Tomorrowland 33: science fiction
Tomorrowland 34: middle grade or YA

The first page of shelvings - not the 5 that are typically on the book page, but the page that comes up when you click on the "more top shelves" message has approximately 100 shelvings on it. The genre designations in the tasks are very general genre designations. It is hard for me to imagine that a book that is actually fantasy won't have "fantasy" as a shelving in the first 100 shelves! So "yes," it does need to be on the first page of shelvings. Not the book page. The first full page.

However, if you manage to find a book where this is not true - for example, you are looking a book and it is, for example, fantasy, but does not have "fantasy" in any of the top 100 shelvings, make an individual case here and I will likely still approve. If it is "tagged" "identified" "shelved" "listed" or any other possible permutation of those words as the correct genre on some other site, again, you'll be fine.

This is the rule henceforth. Any prior completed tasks still count whether or not the rule technically applies because I am a lawyer, and ex post facto laws are unconstitutional.

Thus sayeth Moonlight.

Reply to post #181 (show post):
LOL, "yes" would have sufficed.

I'm utterly loathe to use goodreads for anything outside of my groups-- but, truthfully with millions of members someone would likely have shelved books I planned on reading in a way I could make it work for a square even if not on first page of shelves. Some truly odd shelvings. "Yes" rules that out for me where I'll be skipping lots of squares and rolls — on the other hand, "yes"needing first page means I'm not looking at all on goodreads to play booklikes-opoly now.

Hmm...no first page rule for LibraryThing tag clouds!

Ok well, I thought I had find my answer but I did not. I'm sorry if it has already been asked, I can't keep track on everything (I don't know how you do it, seriously, thanks again for creating this game!! It must be quite a lot of work though.)

I landed on BL spot, then rolled and got 5, which is

5. Collect 10.00$ for yourself and one other player! (which I did)

But now I'm lost: should I roll again? Because I did not get to pick a book. Or should I just randomly choose a book to read?

Thanks in advance, and again, I'm sorry if it has already been asked :)

Reply to post #184 (show post):
Nope you rolled that and have to wait to roll again. My roll from the other day was post a pic of a vacation spot or tell a story of a trip and I did, but didn't have to read a book for it and got no cash.

Reply to post #185 (show post):
Ok, thanks a lot!

Reply to post #187 (show post):
Wow. I wonder since it's not released yet that is why it doesn't have a page count. I say for this just use the low end (60 pages).

Does it have a word count? There are ways to calculate page length from word counts.

I would also say that you should take the $1.00 payout, but check up after the book is released, and if it turns out it is 110 pages or so, you can go back and recalculate.

Or file size? You can sometimes get a rough guesstimate - 1/2 pg for every 100kb I think it is.
So a 600kb file would be approximately 300 pages.

Reply to post #191 (show post):
Less than 100 pages still gets you $1 though.

Reply to post #191 (show post):
Can you transfer it to a computer?

If there's a word count, different publishers divide by 390 or by 475 to calculate pages. (Not sure which would be the official one for booklikes-opoly and that difference is because of different print formats).