I will get started on the books i have here about 6. For skype contact bobwichitaks For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Brownell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 5:07 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Challenge and Goal Hi everyone, A while back I remembered Gustavo mentioning he would like to see the collection hit 22,500 by convention time. Tonight after Tony posted his link I did some playing with numbers. I obtained the following numbers using the Advanced Search option. Live books in English 22,680 Live books in Español: 181 Total live books: 22,861 First I'll applaud everyone for getting 2,861 books into the collection since the first of the year... The question now is of course, can we get 139 more books by either July 1, or the end of the week since that's actually the half way mark of the year. And of course that's when the conventions start. .. So in an attempt to see actually how feasible this was I went and looked at the latest edition of Marissa's list. Since books in the admin queue are now separated, I was quickly able to see there are 71 books in the admin pool as of the generation. Looking at the site, the nearest I could tell, 6 books had been approved. Leaving 65. Now if we assume that say 15 of them get sent back for more editing or are rejected, that's a total of 22,861 + 50 = 22,911. Just 89 books away from 23,000. What do you say admins, volunteers? Can we hit the magical number and have the right to brag for churning out **500** books a month for the first half of 2005? I know I'm going to do my best to submit at least 5 more books between now and the end of the week, all of which of course will be easy validations.... Cheers! Jake