I will be starting very soon! It’s just that every time I sit down I’m all そわそわ and end up thinking there’s something wrong with the spot I chose and going to look for a different spot where I repeat the same process…
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Ended up reading the first 30 pages of Major (not quite a full chapter) in 45 minutes this morning before my 24 hours were up.
Final results: (goals post):
カードキャプターさくら ABBC reading: Complete - 7 pages in 15m
Volume 12 名探偵コナン: Complete - 166 pages in 5h 50m
Volume 13 of 名探偵コナン: Read 4 of 10 chapters - 67 pages in 2h 25m
Volume 1 of Major: Read about 3/4 of the first chapter - 30 pages in 45m
Total Pages: 270
Total Time: 9h 15m
Didn’t quite get through everything I wanted to, but still very happy with how this challenge went! 
My goal for when we do the Winter Readathon will be to improve my pace so I can cover more pages. Necessary preparation for the next few months: Improve my vocabulary so I’m not having to pause to look up as many words!
Good luck and enjoy, to everyone still reading!
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Final update
How did it go? I couldn’t have hoped for a better start. Between 6-10 pm I read for 3 hours, 32.5k characters. The next day, however, was a lazy morning. Before getting out of bed, I read for one hour, 8.3k characters. Then my time was occupied with an English book until lunch. After that I read for 2 more hours (and perhaps a bit more?) of Honzuki.
Results
Total time: 6 hours
Total characters: 66.8k
Goals accomplished
Estimate of pages read:
Start 24.7% → End 56.0% = Total 31.3% of the book read
391 pages in the book * 31% = 121 pages
I ended up spending more time reading English book than Japanese 
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Thank you for joining!! 
It’s always immensely inspiring to see everyone’s reading process and thoughts. Congrats on such a great final result 
Haha I’ve been having this same nervousness, especially since the winter solstice is only four or so days before a major holiday 
But maybe we’ll surprise ourselves
The post-readathon sleep hits so good 
The reading stamina that so many of you have is incredible, I could feel my brain going smooth and unthinking at the 5-hour point during both readathons 
Amazing job!!
Consider it done 
The time math seems to have gotten tangled in the results table somewhere so I need to recalculate anyway
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第一報
← home post 
2024-09-22T19:00:00Z
Progress: 35m / 1h 52m
It’s been a slow morning… I keep starting and stopping bc of life getting in the way of my reading lol. About a third of the way to my goal though!
Reading 極主夫道１４ 
Also, a Japanese question: is 報 the correct counter to use in this situation? Trying to say “Update 1.” Tofugu’s counter guide says 報 can be used for updates, but it seems to have a news nuance (“first report”). Which I guess I am reporting on the very important news of my reading progress 
Anyway is there a better counter to use?
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Officially starting at 2024-09-28T19:00:00Z!
- 40 minutes, 65 pages of よつばと!12
- 40 minutes, 5 pages of ダンジョン飯
- 25 minutes, 9 pages of 絶叫学級
- 25 minutes, 9 pages of 絶叫学級
- 5 minutes, 1.5 pages of ダンジョン飯
- 30 minutes, 10 pages of ハルタ87
- 15 minutes, 2.5 pages of ダンジョン飯
- 10 minutes, 12 pages of はなにあらし13
Next morning:
- 20 minutes, 12 pages of ハルタ87
- 30 minutes, 7 pages of ダンジョン飯
- 20 minutes, 7 pages of 絶叫学級
- 5 minutes, 6 pages of よつばと!12 (kept getting interrupted until I couldn’t keep reading anymore )
- 10 minutes, 10 pages of よつばと!12
- 10 minutes, 3 pages of ダンジョン飯
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Evening Update
(possibly the last one)
home post I ended up taking a very long nap (I think 2 hrs?) to make up for last night’s awfulness. In general, today I felt really だるい and couldn’t handle too much focussed reading, so I ended up doing another short 30-min session of 焼いてるふたり. The story is so light and fluffy it’s a great relaxation read 
It makes me crave meat like crazy though lol
焼いてるふたり2 77—> 125
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Singlehandedly destroying the chara goal 
お疲れ様!
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I recalculated the numbers :3
Mwahaha 
The current total suggests that the new goal in the next readathon is going to be at least 173.5k!
…N-nyohoho? 
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Me and the five other participants who happen to be free on December 21st, rolling up to insanely high numbers to beat:
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This is also on a Saturday, so I’d be Monday gang again. Do the equinox and solstice always end up on the same day of the week? 
I think the summer one was a weekday.
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Bedtime update:
Since I had more leeway this evening, I worked on a page of F落第生 which I own physically, and physically tired out my brain. Then read some (much MUCH) easier manga.
| Source | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|
| F落第生 | 1 | 1h 14m |
| レンタルおにいちゃん | 13 | 9m |
| 三ツ星カラーズ | 7 | 11m |
| スーと鯛ちゃん | 7 | 3m |
| SubTotal | 69 | 5h 51m |
Not adding to the results table yet, because if I wake up early enough tomorrow and can drag myself out of bed, I reckon I could reach a 6th hour before the 24hrs are up. Either way I’ll sort it in the morning.
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Not always the same day of the week, it’s usually the 21st but can sometimes go a day either side.
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They’re close but usually off-set. Next year looks like this:
Spring equinox: Thursday
Summer solstice: Friday
Fall equinox: Monday
Winter solstice: Sunday
So I think my tactic will just be to hang onto the closest weekend? But maybe we could try a mid-week event sometime 
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Personally middle of the week would work, it’s easier for me to take a day off from work than a day off from my family 
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After another 3 hours and 24 minutes of reading, I have now also started and finished その花びらにくちづけを 唇とキスで呟いて, for 52400 more characters read.
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Results
Home Post 
I was so hooked by 焼いてるふたり that I ended up adding another reading session.
焼いてるふたり2 125—> 160 (finished!
)
焼いてるふたり3 1—> 62
It is now almost 11pm and I’m calling it a day.
| Source | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 焼いてるふたり2 | 148 | 49 |
| 京都寺町三条のホームズ1 | 12 | 25 |
| 焼いてるふたり3 | 62 | 29 |
| Total | 222 | 1h 43m |
Reached two of my goals! I expected to spend more time reading but ended up feeling pretty lazy all day long ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you very much @taiyousea for organising this challenge. It’s amazing how big the turnout was this time around! I’m looking forward to the winter solstice, I suspect there’ll be much fewer of us participating though haha
Also congrats to everyone who participated, no matter how much or how little you read!
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It is now 22:30 and I’m calling it a close. I won’t be reading anything else for the next 10 minutes, and it’ll likely cut close by the time I’m done with this post anyway.
My 5 and last update for this challenge; My concentration is definitely waning, and has been since the evening started really (I took a small nap around 5pm which helped a little. ) so I jumped around a bit to keep my interest fresh and stuck to mostly manga.
What I read: 23 pages of のぼうの城 上 | L30?? in 47 minutes. NANA―ナナ― 1 | L27 in 2 parts, 184 pages over the span of 1h36 total. What was left of https://learnnatively.com/book/3a454b62a4/ ; about half; ~63 pages in 35 minutes. What was left of 鉄腕アトム 1 手塚治虫漫画全集 | L24?? ; about a third, ~44 pages in 45 minutes.
Results!
| Book | Start | End | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 虚像の道化師 | L34 | 337 | 475 | 138 | 3h1m |
| こいものがたり 2 | L20 | 0 | 287 | 287 | 1h58m |
| のぼうの城 上 | L30?? | 46 | 69 | 23 | 47m |
| NANA―ナナ― 1 | L27 | 0 | 184 | 184 | 1h36m |
| 鉄腕アトム 1 手塚治虫漫画全集 | L24?? | 79% | 100% | ~44 | 45m |
| https://learnnatively.com/book/3a454b62a4/ | 51% | 100% | ~63 | 35m |
| ナリワイをつくる 人生を盗まれない働き方 | L24?? | 62% | 67% | ~13 | 19m |
That makes for a total of 752 pages and 9h1m (541 minutes)! My brain is tired but that was a blast, haha. I’m going to update my results to the board and then I’ll shut down for the day.
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I also read 71 pages of the second volume of the konosuba light novels in 1h 30 min, and with that I think I’m done. I’ll do the math for my total stats tomorrow though.
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Holy smokes!!!
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