I’m going to carry on reading with the club whatever pace we end up going with.
I can easily switch to 1w per chapter if thats what we end up doing since I already read the whole chapter on the first week and then have a rest week because I prefer reading a full chapter in one sitting - but I’m voting to keep the 2w per chapter pace for volume 3 because we are a small enough club that I’d prefer not to drop any members who need to read at a slower pace.
I’m mostly fine with whatever pace is chosen, but I voted for 2w per chapter. I don’t want to leave anyone behind if we’re reading too fast, for one thing. And for another, while I’d be more than capable of reading a chapter a week, the chances of me having the time to really analyze what I’m reading and then post questions/responses as needed would drop dramatically. And I’ve already been struggling to find the time to do that with the 2w per chapter pace, as shown by how little I’ve ended up posting during volume 2…
I think to address some of the concern in this message, I can only speak for myself but I don’t think anyone in this club is interested in leaving anyone behind. This book club’s first volume was my first time touching native material and the pace when we first started was more than enough reading for a single week. I no longer personally feel that pressure and would be comfortable moving to a higher pace, so I voted in kind. But as was stated in the original poll - we’re only changing pace if the vast majority of readers want to, so I don’t feel that by casting my vote I am intentionally excluding others (and actually I’m curious to others thoughts but I am privy to making this decision unanimously in the future so as to not leave anyone behind). The reality is that by hosting this poll, we can get a read on how people are doing within the club, and since the original schedule has a 2 year reading block for the series, it’s not unlikely that at some point all ~10 members will be interested in an increased pace.
Also fwiw it looks like we’re not there yet and the majority is still looking to keep the current pace now so no worries!
I also voted to increase the pace because it was feeling a little slow for me, but it is way more important not to leave others behind. Please let’s keep the pace as it is if it would otherwise mean leaving people behind.
I’m not sure if I misread it earlier, but when I voted I was the only one voting to keep it at the current pace and I thought there were 3-4 votes for increasing. Maybe some people have changed their vote around now. Either way the point of my post was not to swing the vote specifically to benefit me, I just wanted to voice that I was feeling a bit blindsided by a double-difficulty increase combining a faster pace with more pages. I think we should feel out the increased pages first before also deciding to ramp up the speed.
For clarity, I’m 100% not saying anybody who wants to speed up wants to exclude slower readers! It’s great to see bookclub members progressing with their reading skills and wanting to read more!
I just remember being the slower reader who had to drop out of several clubs and how demotivating I found it, especially in cases where I was the only person who wanted to keep a slower pace - so now that I’m a faster reader I tend to vote with the slower readers in any bookclub. 
I changed my vote, mostly because I hadn’t noticed the increase in chapter length. (So thanks point pointing that out, @Dimsumwitch!)
Hi folks, thanks for all the comments!
Sorry for the confusion – I definitely could have made it clearer that I was only going to even consider increasing the pace if we had a strong majority, and even then, I was interested in hearing people’s opinions before making a final decision. I wasn’t planning to close the poll until at least a few days had passed and more club members had voted, either.
I’m happy that folks feel strongly about not leaving people in the club behind! Actually, given that it’s a small club, I agree with @jablekanji that it makes sense to do a consensus vote at the end of future volumes (as in, we only increase the pace if everyone agrees to do so). Hopefully, that removes any pressure anyone feels to vote any particular way.
Alright, with two days left until Saturday, I’ve closed the Vol 3 reading pace poll!
As per the results of the poll, we’ll be reading at two weeks per chapter. Vol 3’s reading starts on Mar 15th.
If there are any issues with the thread, please reply to this post and let me know!
Looking forward to reading the next volume with you all!