No, not at all. I just found it unpleasant enough to read that I no longer felt any desire to read the book, that’s all.
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Hey all, now that I’m kind of catching up on the forums, I’m ready to add my two cents here ^^
I tried to think of some books to suggest but I see that the poll is already under way so next time I guess 
For the reading speed, I saw some concerns in the original discussion in the BBC thread regarding book length. So my idea was to maybe gradually ramp up the reading speed over time in order to not stretch it out too long. Maybe start with 5 pages in the first week and end with 12-15 pages in the last week, and slowly increase each week? (Sorry if this has already been suggested, I did not read all posts in full depth.) Of course this way we might end up with some awkward breakpoints and stuff, but given that this is rather for educational purpose, maybe we could bear with it.
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I wasn’t really envisioning this as the actual lower-intermediate / upper-beginner club. Mostly because I’m very willing to let this one (or two) picks take as long as they need, aka a long time. And that isn’t really workable as a regular club.
So it has me wondering is that only my view and I’m kidding myself, or is most people on the same page as me?
If anyone is curious about my plans. I am definitely thinking of starting up/organizing an actual upper beginner/lower intermediate club, but I’m a bit full up in commitments until after the summer (August/September somewhere). So my personal thoughts were that if no one else had gotten it going by then, I’d start it at such a time. (But please feel free to start it earlier if you have the time and will.)
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Something like that is what I think would probably be the way to go. It will certainly be one of the schedule options. But it does indeed require people to be okay with a lot of awkward stopping places. ^^
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Amd also because LI/UBBC is a bit of an awkward acronym? 
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Hehe, if/when this club gets started, I think it should either already be decided if it is UB or LI, OR that would be the very first poll. 
(I’d probably vote for LIBC over UBBC, because ABBC and BBC is already confusing xD)
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I guess the decisions about reading speed partly depend on whether we are going to use the original threads or not? If we use them we probably need to go either at half the speed of the original threads or the same speed at any one point. Otherwise one of our reading weeks will cross two different threads.
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Ooo, PUBLIC. The, uh… Provisional Upper-Basic/Lower-Intermediate Club.
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I seem to have missed/forgotten that @meagstudies was willing to start the LIBC / UBBC / UBLIC club. I hope they do. Because I have a preposterously frequent habit of starting independent clubs, and someone has gotta do that too.
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I actually kind of love the acronym UBBC. (I like how it makes a nice set … ABBC > BBC > UBBC)
And it’s kind of hilariously awkward.
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It immediately makes me think of UBC (University of British Columbia), so that would be a fun bit of consistent confusion.
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Just curious, is this specifically for this “IBC but slower” version or for the broader idea that you originally mentioned? I ask because I have no interest in “IBC but slower” at my level, but I could be interested in joining book clubs for more difficult manga that can’t be read in BBC but tend to not get picked by IBC.
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This thread is for IBC but slower (and I only mean to do one book, maybe maybe two).
The upper beginner / lower intermediate would be for the harder manga and any short enough books that possibly exist in the gap, but I expect it will be a mostly manga club. This is also the one that @meagstudies is probably starting rather than me. I’ll just step up if necessary.
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Same here. I just bought キッチン because I looked it up after your suggestion here and would join the discussion if this book is chosen.
BTW I had some difficulties buying this kindle book because amazon.co.jp wouldn’t let me buy it. I got a message saying that my location couldn’t be verified. I then used a Japanese VPN and switched to my (dummy) Japanese delivery address - and then I was allowed to buy this book (and another one: 僕が愛したすべての君へ).
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Just in case you didn’t notice:
あん is currently #1 in the ongoing voting for the next IBC book.
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Sorry if this was answered before but a quick search wouldn‘t show it
I always used manga republic for the physical copies but obviously this won‘t do for novels… so where would/could I buy those? Any ideas/recommendations?
Of course, there is https://amazon.co.jp. Books are rather cheap, but the shipping costs are high if you only buy one book.
If you would tell us your location somebody might suggest a physical bookshop nearby. For example kinokuniya has some stores in the world as this map shows:
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Oh… I’d rather if it didn’t have to be amazon jp 
but I don’t think there’s something nearby - I’m from Switzerland 
thanks anyways 
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The others I have used are cdjapan (English UI, rather smaller selection than Amazon) and Kinokuniya Japan (Japanese UI only, weird shipping price structure with a massive cliff if you go over 2kg weight). IME physical books are the same cost at all three, so you’re just comparing shipping. Which is cheapest depends on where you are and how many books you’re buying, but in all three cases you ideally want to be buying 5 or 6 books or manga at once to get the average shipping-cost-per-book down to something reasonable.
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You could try ordering from Verasia if they have the book you want in stock. They’re based in Europe.
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