I have our teens report how many hours they read. That way slower readers can compete with faster readers and manga readers don't get any more credit than someone reading Dante's Inferno. This also helps with the online fan fiction and original self published titles, a huge source of reading for the teens at my library. 

Linda Smith
Teen Services Coordinator
   Traverse Area District Library
   610 Woodmere Ave.
   Traverse City MI, 49686
   www.tadl.org

   231-932-8500 ext. 270

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Laura Orlowski <camden@monroe.lib.mi.us> wrote:

Hi all;

In an attempt to keep our patrons (especially teens) into reading this summer, we are allowing all formats of reading (books, magazines, ebooks, audiobooks, etc.).  Because we are allowing so many different formats to be used, we chose to go with page counts for all ages (seems to be the fairest way to track).  For online ebooks and audiobooks, we typically use the standard hardcover page count for those titles.

One of my teen patrons asked if they could count a book they are reading online that is from a site for writers to "self publish".  Since these titles do not have a page count available, any suggestions as to how we can count these stories?  I don't want to tell our readers that they can't use these titles - the whole point of summer reading is to get kids/teens/adults reading for the fun of it.

Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Laura Orlowski, director

Camden Twp. Library

camden@monroe.lib.mi.us

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