I’m usually pretty busy most of the year then painfully free June-August so I’d prefer to do コンビニ人間 since it seems we would be done in that time and I can’t guarantee I’ll always be available afterwards (plus it’s the one I voted for so it makes sense).
But I don’t mind helping with Haruhi during that time or if at some point someone isn’t available but I am.
I’ve never done this before so mistakes will be made
Edit: I was checking to buy Haruhi in ebookjapan but I think the link isn’t right. Would it be this one instead? Though it looks like it’s the furigana version.
For 「コンビニ人間」, I already own the hardback version, so once someone has the paperback in hand, I can help coordinate page differences, if any. Looking at those Amazon links, it says the hardback is 160 pages, but the actual story ends on 151, followed by several pages of ads for other books.
I just bought the ebook version (of the paperback edition) and while usually ebooks are totally unreliable wrt page layouts because of font sizes, it seems that in the browser it shows me the actual pages of the book?! \o/
These are the first three pages, maybe you can compare them to the hardcover version and somebody else can compare them to the non-ebook version? (That would be super-helpful for me when referring to pages.)
I didn’t take a look at the sample before, and I’m amused now to see that the book literally starts with describing all of the (normally filtered out) sounds of a convenience store. I’ve been in close relationships with a couple of people on autism spectrum (including my current partner), and that rings so true, heh.
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned. In particular, my partner has a lot of audio processing problems, both in the “too many sounds” sense and the “lip-reading and using subtitles even though ears are physically fine” sense.
most definitely. I’m reading quite a few books at the moment, so I think slower would definitely be good for me, especially if there’s other book clubs going on on the side.
It’s just that reading with other people keeps me motivated
made a thread! Honestly I don’t know what kind of pace I’m going to read at since I’ll be reading conbini at the same time, so I didn’t post a schedule template or anything. But my personal goal is to finish by the end of August.
Ok, that pretty much settles it, then! I can take care of Haruhi and @Ditto20 and @MissMisc can cover when someone isn’t available (if that ok, of course!)
About mistakes, don’t worry too much, I had to panic edits the first three weeks I was taking care of Kino
Honestly even if you don’t understand a single word, the drawings are beautiful enough to almost warrant buying it just to immerse yourself in the world that manage to display so much character with every panel.