Thank yous

Thanks to Hannah, Eva, and Nymeth for helping make this read-a-thon fantastic!

Also thanks to our volunteers, Beth Fish, Trish, Jodie, and Darren. You all were invaluable!

Wieners!

One of our drawings in Hour 5 was a random drawing of two cheerleaders. One of the cheerleaders that we drew wasn’t able to end up cheering, so we’ve redrawn a new winner! Lynn from Chronicles of an Infant Bibliophile wins a book of her choice from the Prizes page and one of the following (given out on a first come, first served basis):

• Laura’s bookmark set
• 2 sets from Katrina (winner gets one of these, but we have 2 to give away)
• Kim’s bookmark
• a set of literary stamps
• Read-a-thon mug

Here’s some winners from mini-challenges we didn’t have a challenge to announce during the actual read-a-thon:

The winner of Dana at Scraptherapy’s mini-challenge Four That Never Bore was Mervi

The winner of Trisha at The Book Case’s mini-challenge Re-Reading the Classics was Tami & Dave.

Now for winners who we had to draw after the read-a-thon was over:

• Most time spent reading: Liyana Liyana Land with 24.5 hours! Liyana, you’re our hero.You’ve won a $15 Amazon gift card!
• Most pages read: Deborah from Books, Movies, and Chinese Food with 6,882. LOL. I think we all wish we could read this fast. You’ve also won a $15 Amazon gift card!
• Most enthusiastic cheerleader was Jill from Fizzy Thoughts. Everyone loved your cheers, Jill! You get a $25 Amazon gift card
• The other most enthusiastic cheerleader was Eva from A Striped Armchair. Congratulations! You’ve won a $20 Amazon gift card!

Winners of the end-of-event meme:

• Fiona from Book Journeys won 5 books of her choice from the Prizes page
• Melissa from One Librarian’s Book Reviews one of the Hachette bundles from the Prizes page

Winners, please email deweyreadathon at gmail to claim your prize.

Money for Charity!

As far as we can tell, $956 was raised for charity! You guys are awesome! (Probably more money was raised but it’s hard to keep track of everyone!)

Other cool stuff

We have a French version! They had their first read-a-thon in June and had 10 people participate. They’re already planning another read-a-thon for 2010!

Begging and Pleading

Unfortunately for me, Eva and Nymeth have decided to not to co-host in the future. So we’re now in need of at least two more co-hosts for April. I can’t say exactly what you would do as far as co-hosting before the read-a-thon, because we split up the duties so one person isn’t saddled with everything, but things that we do pre-read-a-thon and that you may or may not end up doing include: soliciting prizes, getting mini-challenge hosts, organizing the cheerleaders, answering questions, divvying up the prizes for the various hours, etc. Duties during the read-a-thon  are more universal and include: posting during each hour of your shift (shifts are 6 hours), being the back-up for someone else who is posting for their shift, monitoring Twitter, going around to participants as needed, following up with mini-challenge hosts, etc. If you’re interested in co-hosting or volunteering in some other way, please send an email to deweyreadathon at gmail.

The next read-a-thon…

The date for the next read-a-thon is April 10, 2010. Mark your calendars!

(Originally I’d set this date for April 3, 2010, but April 4th is Easter, so I switched it.)

First, we have five winners from the end-of-event survey! They are:

• Margot from Joyfully Retired, who will get a box of the Earth Day books from Hachette
• Kristi from Books and Needlepoint, who will get a set of Nymeth’s bookmarks, as well as a book of her choice from our prize list
• Ali from Worducopia, who will receive one of Literate Housewife’s commemorative bookmarks and a book of her choice from our prize list
• Francesca from Scribacchina, who will receive a $15 gift card
• Melissa from Literary Adventures, who will also receive a $15 gift card

Next we have most time spent reading, which, from what we were able to determine was:

• Samantha from Bookworms and tea lovers!

Samantha read for over 21 hours! She’ll get one book up to $25 from Amazon, which was donated by Laura from Laura’s Reading Reflections. I know she’ll be like a kid in a candy store!

We had a tie for most enthusiastic cheerleaders, which was:

• Eva from A Striped Armchair
• Beth from Beth Fish Reads

Both Eva and Beth will get a $20 gift certificate to Powell’s. Lucky girls!

We also randomly picked one participant from all four read-a-thons, and that was:

• Joy from Joystory

Joy wins a box of 14 new releases from Hachette. Woo hoo! That should give you plenty of books for the next read-a-thon, Joy!

Finally, we just wanted to announce that Vasilly was the winner of Eva’s Dewey mini-challenge. Congratulations, Vasilly! She won a box of Earth Day books and a set of two of Nymeth’s homemade bookmarks.

Many people who participated in the read-a-thon committed to reading for charity. Some of the charities that will receive a donation are ProLiteracy, Books for Africa, Book Wish Foundation, and Living Water International, just to name a few. Readers did a fantastic job raising a combined total of $1,478.94!

Of the readers who read for charity, we picked a random reader, which was:

• Michelle from 1morechapter

Michelle won a box of Earthday books and a set of homemade dishcloths donated by Dar.

Winners, please contact Hannah at wordlily at gmail to claim your loot!

We hope you’ll participate with us in the October 2009 read-a-thon! Dates have not yet been chosen, but we will let you know as soon as we have the October dates!