how about reading two volumes 
Hm, that would work, but new they are 1,320円 a piece (1100 for the ebook version without discount). That’s a tad expensive…
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Also, simply reading more if the book is too easy feels like padding. This is the advanced book club after all.
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Thanks for reassessing! With its length of 306 pages you can move it over to Intermediate if you like, as there are still 3 slots left; and if you hurry, you might manage to nominate it even before the book club host kicks off the next poll 
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By the way, should I post that poll, or do you plan to take over 
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For me I think I’m past the point where book clubs make any sense at all unfortunately. It used to be that manga clubs were too slow since I could read one volume in a couple of days, but novels were still pretty tough…now it feels like reading anything at bookclub pace will just be frustrating since I don’t like reading ahead of other people 
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I wondered about that as well 
Well, I did not “plan” to run it, at least not without explicitly checking back. For now I thought I’d nudge you a bit and see what happens 
Anyway, I don’t mind either way. I don’t want to “force my way in” at all, but if I can be helpful, then here I am. (I’m guessing that your workload won’t lessen any time soon, given the recent developments…) So I was thinking maybe if we both run the two clubs as a team, with a bit of “shared responsibility”, that might work out quite well?
By the way, there is something I wanted to ask for quite some time now. I see that the OP’s (of the Intermediate and Advanced clubs) contain the list of nominated books with quite a bit of their nomination posts duplicated. Is there any reason for this (other than “that’s what the other clubs did before”)? I’m asking because it somewhat goes against my need for maintainability (it requires effort to copy the stuff over, and the OPs get so long that they are much harder to edit) and non-redundancy. And if it doesn’t serve a real purpose, maybe we can get rid of that altogether? I’m thinking of just keeping a list of the links to the nomination posts, plus the difficulty levels. What do you think?
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Indeed. Well, technically I was pretty free during the new year’s break, but sadly that’s ending today…
I’m back to a busy schedule until the end of February.
That’s really helpful, actually! To be completely honest, considering I’m spending less and less time on the forums, I was wondering if someone could take charge instead of me. Even just having shared responsibilities would be very helpful. (We will have to decide how to split them, though).
The main reason was to make it possible to see all data at a glance, rather than having to use the links to jump back and forth between the original post and the nomination posts. I usually care about the content of the book rather than the difficulty, so it’s convenient for me at least. It’s not like I remember the summary of books that were nominated two years ago. Well, except for 君の名は, but that’s a special case
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Sure, no worries! I will run the Intermediate club poll then.
That would work for me! I’m a bit hesitant to fully commit because my workload is quite unpredictable, and this way we both have a safety net.
I was thinking of a somewhat “organic” approach: If one of us feels that something should or needs to be done, we can raise this and then the other can chime in (“That’s unnecessary” / “I would like to do that” / “Please go ahead”) or something? This way we can be flexible wrt workload and other interests. (So, basically what we did for the two clubs very recently.) What do you think?
Hm, I see. I personally would rather open each nomination post in its own tab and jump between those, because opening them all in the OP still requires a fair deal of scrolling. But I know that different people use browsers very differently. OK, so what about this: Let’s keep the descriptions but remove all other information (e.g. there are the amazon links and maybe other stuff in there as well for some nominations at least). Also, I guess there is no need to keep those descriptions for the historical nominations? I.e. those that got either picked or removed. Eliminating those and replacing them with just the nomination links would help me a lot already.
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For what it’s worth I really appreciate having it all in the op. I exclusively use my phone for browsing atm, and the mobile app of the forum doesn’t support tabs.
Your compromise sounds perfect to me.
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I have my copy of suspect X ready to go. Will the OP be edited after the book starts to show goals and progress as the weeks go by?
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Every book club has it’s own “home thread”, which contains the schedule and most other information. Generally there are new threads created every week for that week’s assigned reading. Make sure you’re following the home thread so you don’t miss when the weekly threads are posted.
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maybe shouldn’t have, but i updated the topic and the title
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Thank you very much! I totally forgot about that 
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With only 7 weeks left on the current book (including this week), I guess it’s time to ask for nominations again!
I guess I’ll put up the poll in 10-14 days (to leave enough time for nominations and voting on said nominations)
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Great! By now I have mostly automated the generation of the poll entries (including difficulty rating) so if you’d like, I can send you the generated poll entries when you plan set up the poll.
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Oh! I’ll take that, yes. Or if it’s less hassle for you to just post the poll, don’t mind me!
Oh, no, I’m totally fine with you running the poll, if you’re ok with that as well. I’ll send you the entries close to the date.
Regarding the discussion re: cleaning up the book club OPs, I’ve established a table to keep track of the low-interest books for this club. What do you think about it?
(If you like it, I’d try to establish something similar for the Intermediate Book Club as well.)
I’ve set the threshold at 10% because there are so few people voting here, which naturally causes the number of votes per entry to be lower on average than what we see in the Intermediate Club.
For comparison I figured out which entries would get removed with a 15% threshold, and it turns out that we’d kick out 5 entries after the 3rd poll (i.e. now)… which I think is not a good idea on many levels.
So I’m totally in favour of the 10% threshold. How does that feel for you?
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Sure, 10% sounds good for this club. Thanks for that!
For the intermediate book club, I still need to do the clean up, but we could compare the results based on both methods. 
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Can someone tell me what the next winner will be, so I can add it to my book order.
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