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I would happily revise my vote to keep things simpler! Don’t mind having some longer weeks and some shorter weeks - I’d prefer ending the week at a chapter ending.

@TakeFlite @carouseal Good to know! I’ll have another go at the schedule. :slight_smile:

Revised schedule for chapters 5-7 (next 6 weeks) Week Date Chapter Pages Page count Last sentence 11 Aug 22 ‎ ‎ ‎ 5 102-115 14 12 Aug 29 ‎ ‎ ‎ 5 115-133 17 end of chapter 13 Sep 5 ‎ ‎ ‎ 6 134-144 11 14 Sep 12 ‎ ‎ ‎ 6 144-153 9 end of chapter 15 Sep 19 ‎ ‎ ‎ 7 154-167 13 16 Sep …

[image] MaraVos: If folks don’t mind, from chapter 8 on I might wait until the week before to find the split point in the chapters. Unacceptable. I would like to see 45 iterations of potential schedule immediately with detailed breakdowns of suggested break points and pros/cons. /s Thank yo…

Bad surprise on kindle: When I tried to find the new weekly stops on my kindle I saw that chapters 7, 8, 11 and 12 are graphical pages which may look rather nice but are impossible to read on the small kindle screen (at least for me on my kindle Oasis). This explained why chapter 7 had only 16 kind…

The text is the same size as the other pages but the pages are gray instead of white

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Same for me! Although I have the Kobo digital version rather than the Kindle. Readable on my iPad but is sure going to make lookups a lot harder for those chapters…

[image] MaraVos: Is there a way you could read them on a larger screen? Yes, there is the Japanese web reader for kindle Amazon Kindle: Your free personal library you can take anywhere with which I can read on the PC screen. However usually I use my kindle while riding the bus or subway.

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Week 12 is here. Time to finish chapter 5! (I’ll be catching up soon!!)

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