Thanks so much 
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!!
Great idea to buy two books at once, I wish I would have thought of that! If there aren’t objections we could basically already decide to read the 2nd place Pacific Ocean book next, and then if anyone makes another order in the meantime they could already order it.
I finally made the thread for the next book!
Click the polls to join and let us know when you expect your copy to arrive:
I’ve done that too and I’ve received the 2 today, so I’m ready for the 2 next adventures ! 
Thank you for opening the new thread^^
I got all 5 books! Ready to start the adventure!
Wahoo! I think there are just a couple people left to get their books and then I’ll see you there 
Hey everyone, I was just thinking that it’s likely we’re about 6 weeks out from escaping the Cold and Snowy Mountains 
(not a guarantee ).
These are independent “choose your own adventure” format books, so you can join for just one or any book, and you don’t have to have read the first book. See the home post for how this club works.
Next book What do you think about joining, the next Survival Game book taking place in the 太平洋 Pacific ocean 
? Here are some various options you can click on (3 votes since it’s a sneaky 3 in one poll that I might regret)
Purchasing and availability: Amazon has sold out of this book since the last round of voting in June, so to join this club you’ll need to buy a used copy, likely from Japan. I found a popular proxy service for buying used books from Japan that has plenty of copies. Edit: Here’s a post with details on how to get the book and estimate total cost before you buy.
Timing: TBD by members, likely after mid October.
Future thoughts For future planning, if you’re considering buying the remaining two books: Savannah and Desert - just keep in mind we’ll do a vote after each book on interest, so I can’t guarantee now that those clubs will run. Also, we don’t know if copies will be available to purchase for new members at that time. Fear not, there is a contingency!
Mysterious!!
Also, we should probably test if we can actually acquire the book before we decide on the next club. I know some people bought all of them, but I only got the mountain one.
Yes - thanks for bringing this up as that is exactly why I made the note on the other two books. I’ve been buying them as I go and almost couldn’t get the current mountain one.
The books have been getting increasingly harder to find after the first club started (is it possible exposure on WK and Natively really got them to sell out?). Regarding the ocean book - since it came in a close second in the last poll and I know several people bought it at that time (oops, wish I had now!), I decided at that time it would be pragmatic to choose that for book 3 at the time. I hope I read the room right on that!
I don’t have the Ocean one either, so I’ll have to get it, too.
How does it feel to be an influencer? 
I’d be happy to do the ocean one next, and I’m a little less interested in the desert and savannah ones. Maybe we could do ocean and then try your secret idea?
The only book I don’t have is desert, so I can’t do that one. If they’re selling out as we read them that’ll make it even harder to find. I’d be okay with doing all the books as we go through them, or taking a break to do something else. Is the new secret idea also cyoa or is it something else?
Okay, I’ve been searching a bit and it’s actually pretty easy to find the survival books in stock on japanese websites and order them with a proxy service. Just a bit less beginner friendly.
I’m pretty sure there are at least 2 other people who haven’t voted yet who already have the Ocean one that will probably join, so it’s fairly certain we’ll do that. I hope getting a used book doesn’t put anyone off.
yeah I found 12 on one, am I being too paranoid not to post the link? I was just worried if I did they might disappear before we confirm the club!
I’m thinking of a reveal after we read Ocean 
not to distract us from our current survival challenges.
I may have just ordered a copy 
Along with more children’s books while I was at it 
seeing as both of you are going for it, plus we know prath, Marifly and macalys all already have it from the last order, I think that just leaves me and Otoko who don’t have the book.
Continue to vote and register your interest so I can tag you at the end of the current book to talk timing. If you’re new, set this thread to watching.
Oh I don’t have this book either! I backed out at the last minute and only got the Snowy Mountains one haha.
What’s the proxy service you’re talking about? 
Maybe I can check if it’s available for my country!
Oh that’s ok, don’t feel obliged to get it! The proxy service is called Neokyo and then you can choose a market from there. The Mercari market has about a dozen used copies at the moment. Here’s the link with my search parameters, although I’m not sure if that works in other countries. Basically I selected Mercari and then searched for a fragment of the title, 太平洋を泳ぎぬけ. There are some promotions running at the moment, so that’s nice.
I have never used one of these, so anyone else trying this the first time be sure to read their user guide. The costs are as follows: book + domestic shipping (within Japan to Neokyo) + various Neokyo fees to package things + international shipping (Neokyo to you). Then depending on country there may be some import taxes/fees so search what monetary limits there are on imports and be aware in most countries the shipping cost is included in the assessment (not just the value of the item).
Also, there are other proxy services, if anyone has experience with different ones, then let us know!
6 Sept
I just started my order with Neokyo, I realised it’s a totally different way of thinking about ordering books because they will store the books that arrive up to 45 days before shipping.
This is pretty nice, so I could order the Survival Escape book now, but I can wait until the IBC vote ends next week to decide if I’ll add anything to my package that gets shipped internationally. And I can wait a bit longer until I definitely won’t have work travel to tell them to start packing things to send to Germany. This is quite convenient.
As far as I understand the estimates, since each book from Mercari costs me about ~400 yen, then by the time I add fees and international shipping, I figured out the following for Germany:
If I order:
So the sweet spot to make an order worth it seems to be about 3 books plus. Fingers crossed the shipping doesn’t turn out to be massively more expensive than expected I’ll update this when it’s confirmed.
beautiful stack!
There are several proxy services you can use. I don’t have too much experience using them because usually I can find what I want on cdjapan or whatever, but I’m using japanrabbit for this order. Their site says they ship to 140 countries so you should be able to use it!
With their site, you find the product on the japanese internet, and link to the page. Then they purchase it for you and send it to a warehouse. Then they send it to you from the warehouse. Here’s where I found the book listed as in stock. You can also use these services to buy from secondhand markets like Japanese mercari.
These services are more expensive than using something like CDJapan, though. Japanrabbit charges a service fee, which is why I ordered multiple books, so I wasn’t just paying such a large service fee for one item.
Then, they only charge the shipping after it’s arrived in the warehouse and you ask them to ship it to you. So you’ll get charged twice- once to buy the items and ship them to the warehouse, and once to ship them to your country. They have some kind of shipping estimator on their website, so you could probably take the dimensions of a Japanese paperback and estimate it to see how much shipping will be, but they don’t actually calculate the shipping and charge you until the warehouse part. I wouldn’t buy something with these if I was short on cash, since the fees are kind of high and you don’t actually know what the shipping charge will be until they’ve already bought the item and sent it to the warehouse.
