サイレント・ウィッチ 🤫 🧙‍♀️ (Intermediate Book Club)・Started Jan 4th!

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Schedule

Week Start date Chapter End page End % End on Page Count
Week 1 Jan 4 プロローグ 15 5% End of プロローグ 11
Week 2 Jan 11 一章 1/2 ~30 10% ルイスの言葉にモニカは目を丸くした。 ~14
Week 3 Jan 18 一章 2/2 45 15% End of 一章 ~16
Week 4 Jan 25 二章 57 19% End of 二章 12
Week 5 Feb 1 三章 76 26% End of 三章 18
Week 6 Feb 8 四章 1/2 ~90 30% ここなら落ち着いて
過ごせそうだ。
~11
Week 7 Feb 15 四章 2/2 103 35% End of 四章 ~15
Week 8 Feb 22 五章 1/2 ~116 39% モニカは自分にそう
言い聞かせ、震える足を動かした。
~12
Week 9 Mar 1 五章 2/2 129 44% End of 五章 ~14
Week 10 Mar 8 六章 150 51% End of 六章 21
Week 11 Mar 15 七章 1/2 ~167 57% やがて何事もなかったかのようにページをめくりだした。 ~16
Week 12 Mar 22 七章 2/2 183 62% End of 七章 ~16
Week 13 Mar 29 八章 1/2 ~198 67% モニカはやけに気になっていた。 ~15
Week 14 Apr 5 八章 2/2 213 72% End of 八章 ~15
Week 15 Apr 12 九章 1/2 ~226 76% 猫の鳴き声が、聞こえた。 ~11
Week 16 Apr 19 九章 2/2 238 81% End of 九章 ~13
Week 17 Apr 26 十章 260 88% End of 十章 21
Week 18 May 3 エピローグ 274 93% End of エピローグ 13
Week 19 May 10 シークレット・エピソード 288 97% End of the chapter 15
Week 20 May 17 ここまでの登場人物 + あとがき 295 100% End of book 7

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Silent Witch won: :partying_face:
I have to read a L31 book now: :fearful::fearful::fearful:

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Page numbers!

@TobiasW same honestly :joy:

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Silent Witch won: :partying_face:
I get to read another L31 book now: :blush: :blush: :blush:

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Let me know if the book gets cheap.

Currently it’s 924 yen on Bookwalker, discounted from 1320 yen (-30%). Though free to read, if anyone can make it in 10 minutes.

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The kindle version is also ¥924 (with 9 pts discount for your next purchase).

What do you consider ‘cheap’? I think that Japanese books are incredibly cheap compared to book prices in Germany - at least if you don’t have to pay the considerable postage fees for physical books from Japan.

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I think there should be a BookWalker 50% coin cashback on all books around Dec 1st as it’s the company’s anniversary. In that case, the current sale and the cashback will stack :grin:

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Thank you! :heart_hands:

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And you’re even reading it in physical form! You’re much braver than me :cold_sweat:

My only hope right now is that the Beginner’s Light Novel Book Club doesn’t also elect one of the things that I want to read (at least that one will be “just” be L27-29…), or I’ll have three book clubs in the flavours “Doable in a day if I stretch it”, “This’ll take multiple days out of my week” and “Why did I ever think this was a good idea” :laughing:

But while L31 is the highest I ever tried to read, at least this time it’s a book I’m genuinely excited for. So maybe that’ll carry me along.

(For context, my comfort zone with digital lookups is ~L23, and the highest I read and thought it was hard but a good experience was L26.)

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Proposed schedule
There are 12 chapters, prologue, side story and atogaki. My suggestion is that we take it slow at the start by reading the prologue during the first week and splitting chapter 1 (30 pages) into two weeks, preferably at a natural breakpoint. I’m splitting chapter 7 (33 pages) and 8 (30 pages) into two weeks each as well.

Chapter 13 is an overview of the characters introduced so far while the atogaki is just a few pages, so those can be one week together. We could even squeeze those in with the previous week, that’s also possible. On the other hand, leaving those as is could leave some elbowroom for those who might have fallen behind schedule.

(*)The exact page count for the split chapters are yet to be decided.

Week Chapter Start Page Page Count
Week 1 Prologue 5 11
Week 2 1 (part 1) 16 15*
Week 3 1 (part 2) 15*
Week 4 2 46 12
Week 5 3 58 19
Week 6 4 (part 1) 77 14*
Week 7 4 (part 2) 13*
Week 8 5 (part 1) 104 13*
Week 9 5 (part 2) 13*
Week 10 6 130 21
Week 11 7 (part 1) 151 17*
Week 12 7 (part 2) 16*
Week 13 8 (part 1) 184 15*
Week 14 8 (part 2) 15*
Week 15 9 (part 1) 214 13*
Week 16 9 (part 2) 12*
Week 17 10 239 22
Week 18 11 (Epilogue) 261 14
Week 19 12 275 14
Week 20 13 + Atogaki 289 7
End page 295 -

I’m unsure what the end page is. @MaraVos Could you check for me, please? :pray:

We can also do a pace-check poll after a couple of weeks and see what people think about the pace and schedule.

What do you guys think? :durtle_the_explorer: Should we split more chapters or try it like this first?

Edit: I’ve split chapter 4, 5 and 9 as well.
Edit2: End page confirmed.

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Just looking at the sheer numbers, I’m worried that chapters 4 and 5 might be a bit long for a single week, and also chapter 9 - they are all 25+ pages, and the usual IBC pace is more like 15 pages.

But maybe the pages are not just text, given this is a light novel? Could somebody who already has the book please check whether there are any images in these chapters or whether it’s really just text?

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Thanks for saying that; I was also looking at those numbers, fearing that the 15 pages/week thing is more a relict of the past.

Light novels usually don’t have that many images. I checked chapter 4 and 5, and each had exactly one.

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I had a hunch those were a bit long. I’ll revise the table!

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Looks very good to me now! :+1:

Although there are still some slightly longer weeks left, they are nicely counterbalanced by shorter weeks, so people who worry that they cannot manage the longer weeks can always read ahead or trail behind for a little bit in the shorter weeks.

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Atogaki ends on page 295.

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Thank you again~ :heart_hands:

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There is a point in that, considering comparing to cost of living and price of other books. And so, the IBC top contender might be purchasable, even if it doesn’t get any much cheaper.

In the end, how cheap is “cheap” is comparing to other books in fiction category and on the same platform, especially when on sale. If it gets down to 500, I wouldn’t say a thing.

I have access to Kindle JP too, though I hardly purchase anything there.

That’s more than a 50% discount. That’s extremely rare for ebooks, but it happens (I grabbed volume 1 of 本好き and the slime LN free to keep even). You are honestly better off looking for a coupon (however 50% is the max on booklive; don’t know about Bookwalker; that’s still closer to 700 jpy)

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I got it back in August for 660 yen + 150 points back. That made it effectively 45% off, which is often the best you get on Amazon.

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Seems like this was already figured out, but just in case, the audiobook chapter track lengths might give a better idea of how long each chapter really is.

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