Hey everybody,
…peeks around corner…
…checks whether dust has settled…
thank you for this insightful discussion and for all of your participation! And sorry for my radio silence throughout most of it - I had a strong case of Life occurring all of a sudden 
Oh and @mitrac thank you very much for your poll suggestions! If you think they still help us get a clearer picture, please feel free to post them still.
Anyway, looking at the results of my initial poll it indeed seems that most are in favour of having some overlaps:
but I also heard the voices of those who said it would make things unnecessarily hard for them. As the number of the latter ones is pretty small, I think it might be worthwhile to figure out the overlapping on a case-by-case basis. I.e. it might make sense to check back with the readers of a long book (close to the date of the potential new-poll-in-case-of-overlap date) whether they feel ok to overlap, and if all agree, we can go ahead with it, but if a single participant disagrees, then we wouldn’t overlap with the next pick. Does this sound like a good method going forward?
- Yes, sounds good
- No, still not happy (please explain)
Regarding entry restriction of books, y’all voted:
Actually, while I think restriction by combining the two criteria length and difficulty makes the most sense, it’s also very hard to establish. 
(i.e. what would be a good combination? How do we handle ungraded books? etc.) Also, yes I agree with those who claimed that Natively levels are not solid judgments but rather some hand-wavey assignments that might fit well or not for a given book. Therefore, I am wondering whether we should keep up our existing length restriction or whether we should drop it altogether?
- Restrict the length to 350 pages (this is the current limit)
- Restrict the length to some other value (please explain)
- Don’t restrict the length at all
Last not least, I have a somewhat different question for y’all. Usually, I try to run a poll six weeks before we start the next pick, so that everybody can acquire the book if they want to read a physical copy. This is a historical value, and I have no idea whether this is still necessary nowadays. (E.g. the Natively Mystery club starts only 2 weeks after the poll, and I haven’t heard complaints so far.) The reason I ask is that the longer we wait after a poll, the higher the chance that those who voted have lost interest / life has happened to them / whatever, and that of course reduces the number of participants compared to those who actually voted for the book, (that’s also what we saw in the data to some extent, I guess) and so we might end up reading a book with a group that would have preferred to read something else, which of course is a bit weird. So if we could shorten this time period between poll and start, everybody would probably benefit. Therefore my question (particularly for those who read on paper):
- I read on paper and I need 6 weeks to acquire a book
- I read on paper and I can do with 4 weeks to acquire a book
- I read on paper and I can do with 3 weeks to acquire a book
- I read on paper and I can do with 2 weeks to acquire a book
- I don’t read on paper but I want to click
Thanks again to everybody for raising your voices and sharing your opinions! My goal is to make this club more pleasant for everybody, and you’re helping me a great deal here 