Thanks for making me notice that there’s an audiobook! Japanese Audible currently has a “3 months for 99 yen” thing going, so I tried my luck with my non-Japanese credit card… and it worked 
Now I’m looking forward to this even more. Reading Japanese with audiobooks is such a good experience.
Yeah, that’s my cheapest option.
I thought the audiobook is paid, but no. I’ve already added the audiobook to the library, so it now shows the price.
Yeah, I think as long as you keep that subscription (I think it’ll be 1500 yen per month after those first 3 months?) you can keep accessing the audiobook “for free” as part of the subscription. Paying the price for the audiobook would mean that you’d keep it forever.
I’m not planning to read this, but for those who are, the kindle locations are a good way to evaluate reading speed for the club.
Recent clubs have read ~200 kindle locations per week. [I think that might be on the upper limit of comfort for reading speed at ~level 31, but was comfortable when we were reading around level 28 with 赤川次郎]
Looking at the kindle preview, the prologue (11 pages) is about 100 kindle locations. So assuming the text is similar density, 19-20 pages might be fine
Now, thinking about it, “Which version will you be reading?” doesn’t have audiobook. I am still “maybe”, though.
My listening ability is much too bad to rely on audio only. With audio only I wouldn’t get the story.
With satori I always listen first to the episode, then I look up the words and expressions sentence by sentence and finally I listen again.
My listening is also worse than my reading, so what I’m doing is:
I’m sure that will make for worse listening training than pure listening, but it’s far easier and less frustrating (=I will actually do it) and I’m sure my listening ability will get something out of it.
More importantly though: I can do it faster and for much longer stretches at a time than both pure listening or pure reading! My stamina for pure listening is pretty low and my stamina for pure reading is decent to good (depending on my current interest level), but when I do listening and reading at the same time, my focus, attention span and reading speed skyrocket. I’m even blazing through stuff that I had to force myself to go through without the audio component. It’s great.
Also it’s just more fun.
Never done a book club book on WK but willing to try! My last book was a L26, but it wasn’t super challenging , so this should be a good test of whether I can handle more.
Edit: will there be a link for where to get the audio book? I’m interested in doing both as a test.
It’s Amazon.co.jp: [1巻] サイレント・ウィッチ 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと (Audible Audio Edition): 依空 まつり, 森川 真紗子, KADOKAWA: Audible Books & Originals. The link can be found from Amazon JP.
What’s the schedule going to be? We’re starting in a couple weeks, right?
Schedule updated in the OP! 
Since I only have the ebook, some of the page numbers (end page and page count) are approximations of the physical copy. Week 2 and 6 didn’t have any good spots for a breakpoint, so I tried to make the split not too awkward.
If someone with the physical copy would like to check the exact numbers, I’ll add it to the schedule table 
We’re setting off with week 1, here we go! 
I guess that means I need to buy the book now. I was hoping I’d luck into it going back on Unlimited in time for me to borrow it. 
I am joining on Audible subscription, listening-only. It’s doable for me, but certainly I would miss many things.
Some Kanji in proper nouns rn, at least.
On to week 2! 
Oh, am I supposed to be reading? I read what I thought was half the prologue earlier in the week, but it was more like 20%. 
Ohno, you read too far! 
Sounds like you’re enjoying it, that’s good
Sorry, to clarify I read 20% of the prologue. 
I’ve been too busy reading 本好き and playing Celeste to find time to read Silent Witch.
ohhh I don’t blame you for prioritizing Honzuki more, haha. Especially when you’re almost done with the series, right? 
Tackling 2 book clubs but very excited to read what’s for week 2! And to keep practicing them medieval/fantasy words.