Reading Challenge
We are working towards a community goal of 100,000 minutes! Help us reach the community goal by logging the minutes you read from June 1 – August 7. We also have an additional challenge of Adults Vs. Kids.
As you log the minutes you read, you will earn badges and entries for a change to win prizes.
1,200 minutes of reading completes the challenge, but reading over 1,200 minutes earns you more badges and extra entries. You can also complete activities and write reviews to earn badges and extra entries.
Registration
There are a couple of different ways to register yourself or your family for our challenge!
On-line/Computer:
Open your web browser and go to tbflibrary.beanstack.org. Choose the Summer Reading Challenge and register! It’s that easy!
Smartphone:
Go to either Google Play or the App Store and search for Beanstack Tracker. Download the app and install. (You can use this Quick Help Link for more information about how to get the App!)
- Once you open the App on your phone, you will be asked to choose a School, Library or Bookstore, Company or “I’m Not with an organization”. Please choose School, Library or Bookstore.
- At the bottom, you will see a search box asking for the name of a site. Please Enter Thomas Beaver Free Library and press enter.
- Choose Thomas Beaver Free Library and you will go immediately to the sign in page. If you already have a login, enter it here otherwise you can choose to Sign up!
- Make sure you join the Our Community Reads Summer Challenge!
Parents, once you have registered yourself, you can register other family members to track how great everyone does this summer!
If you have any problems signing up, give our staff a call at
570-275-4180
and we can help!
Logging
How to log your books/minutes/challenges:
On-line/Computer:
- Open your web browser and go to https://tbflibrary.beanstack.org. Once you have logged in, you can begin logging your progress!
- The home screen will show which challenges you are part of.
- Move your cursor to the upper left hand of the screen to where it says Log Reading and Activities.
- There are three options for logging: Start a timer if you want to have the application track your time; Log Minutes if you want to manually enter your time and finally Log Activities.
- Start Timer: Click on start timer if you want the computer to calculate the amount of time you are reading. Just remember to stop the timer when you’re finished!
- Log Activities: Have you completed a book review, drawn the character or wrote a new ending to a story? These are all activities that can be completed to win more badges!
- Log Minutes: Enter the number of minutes, or hours and minutes (33m or 1h22m), book title and author are optional
Smartphone:
- Open the Beanstack Tracker App on your phone, after you login, press the Plus sign at the bottom of the screen. You will have the opportunity to log Reading, Activity or write a review.
- To log reading activity, you can have multiple ways to add your work. You can scan the ISBN for the book to log a completed title, you can search for a title, manually enter the title information or log specific amount of time or number of pages.