Will there be polls? 
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Always! 
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first poll: what house are you in?
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second poll: who do you ship? harry/ginny or harry/hermione
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third poll: who’s the real boy who lived?
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Ginny x Hermione?
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Harry x Draco?
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Since the reading is in Japanese…
Ginny x Ron?
EDIT: This is getting deleted
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By the way, here is the table of contents. It looks like the chapters are of uneven length, but that may be because of the illustrations in my book. If you have a book without illustrations, how long are the chapters in your book?
Chapter 1: Page 1
Chapter 2: Page 14
Chapter 3: Page 26
Chapter 4: Page 38
Chapter 5: Page 52
Chapter 6: Page 74
Chapter 7: Page 93
Chapter 8: Page 107
Chapter 9: Page 118
Chapter 10: Page 134
Chapter 11: Page 149
Chapter 12: Page 159
Chapter 13: Page 175
Chapter 14: Page 183
Chapter 15: Page 196
Chapter 16: Page 212
Chapter 17: Page 231
Last page: Page 246
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Oh interesting. That’s much shorter than the Amazon page counts led me to believe. Looks like it’ll be roughly 6 - 9 pages per week if you do two weeks per chapter, which is much more beginner territory. Unless it’s that much shorter because each page is a densely crammed A4 sheet 
(and that’s assuming each chapter runs right up to the next)
In case it’s helpful:
Chapter | Page Numbers | Page Count
- | - | -
Chapter 1 | 1 - 13 | 13
Chapter 2 | 14 - 25 | 12
Chapter 3 | 26 - 37 | 12
Chapter 4 | 38 - 51 | 14
Chapter 5 | 52 - 73 | 22
Chapter 6 | 74 - 92 | 19
Chapter 7 | 93 - 106 | 14
Chapter 8 | 107 - 117 | 11
Chapter 9 | 118 - 133 | 16
Chapter 10 | 134 - 148 | 15
Chapter 11 | 149 - 158 | 10
Chapter 12 | 159 - 174 | 16
Chapter 13 | 175 - 182 | 8
Chapter 14 | 183 - 195 | 13
Chapter 15 | 196 - 211 | 16
Chapter 16 | 212 - 230 | 19
Chapter 17 | 231 - 246 | 16
Always annoying when the author is inconsiderate enough to have uneven chapters!
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The pages in my book has lots of text though. I don’t think you can compare it directly to «normal» versions of the book. It also has illustrations covering many pages.
It would be interesting to know the page counts from a «normal» book!
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Ooooh, well that would explain it. I have definitely taken to counting characters before to get a comparison between different books 
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For what it’s worth, I compared the page counts from the Norwegian versions of the normal book and the illustrated book, and the page counts were quite similar, but not identical.
In any case, we can be certain that the page counts per chapter will be un-even, and that’s just how it is! I think we’ll still go with two weeks per chapter. Some weeks will be easier and some weeks will be harder but that’s OK.
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Oooh nice! I bought the e-book a few months ago actually and I’m currently on chapter 4, so I might join in on discussing the chapters 
. I read a lot in the beginning but haven’t been reading much recently, so maybe this’ll motivate me to keep reading 
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I’m at a level where I can confidently say that that’s a lot of Japanese 
I was too old when the Harry Potter craze started, I never could get into it. I tried reading it in French, but it just didn’t speak to me…
I grew up with LoTR and Dune and Hyperion and your enthusiasm is contagious @Marifly. I’ll start an Hyperion book club when I reach level 30. Some space opera in Japanese, it’ll be epic 
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The first three books really are children’s books, though I’d argue some of the best children’s books ever written, so if you’re not the type of person who can get along with that it would be very hard to get into the series.
I know plenty of people who only read them as adults though - my aunt absolutely loves them and she’s in her 60s.
They’re surprisingly funny too, and I wonder how well some of that translates into other languages 
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I was (roughly) Harry’s age when the first book came out, so arguably I’m the target audience, but I didn’t actually start reading them until after the fourth book came out.
I wound up getting this edition, because Kinokuniya was completely out of the other edition:
It’s two centimetres smaller, though, so I’m hoping I won’t require an electron microscope to read it. Either way, it’s at the shop waiting for me to go pick it up. Still pondering how to get it on Saturday without interfering with the Yotsuba live reading…
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This is a really cool idea! Those of us who stick through it will learn a lot, but I think the first hundred pages or so could prove difficult. I think 1 chapter every 2 weeks is a good pace; it’s an average of 3-4 pages a day in my copy, which I’d describe as more-or-less ‘normal’ book size. Not too easy, not too hard! I will join you!
And here is my copy: 
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That book cover looks almost exactly like Twilight. 
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