I put up 地縛少年花子くん in the Miscellaneous (non-nonscheduled) section of the list since a few of us decided to keep reading in an informal format. We didn’t continue as a scheduled offshoot due to lack of members.
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I just cleaned up a bunch of stuff. Moved books from in progress to complete and from upcoming to in progress. I think everything should be up to date now, except @Naphthalene will need to add a link to the ヨコハマ entry once they create the home thread.
EDIT:
And with @rodan’s help it’s even more up to date. 
(and typo free 
)
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I didn’t correct any typos, but I did fix my mistake of pasting Panorama Island in the Beginner’s Club originally and then poorly covered my tracks 
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Oh, I read your one change backwards. You changed TBD to TBA according to the diff. Any reason you wanted to make that distinction? Or just a conflict with my change and you just happened to pick that phrase independently of me putting TBD?
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Genuinely, I pasted the Panorama Island book club into the beginner section, saved, then realized what I’d done and replaced it hastily - I just picked the first TBX that came into my head!
Apparently I did it fast enough discourse didn’t save my first edit… I would have gotten away with too it if it weren’t for those meddling Ds!
Far from fixing any, arguably I added a typo! Voting is more deciding than announcing huh…
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Are the “Off Shoot” clubs ones that are currently active? If so then I think “Active” is a good word, since the following category are “Finished” (no longer active).
“Offshoot” includes both active and finished.
For example, 「レンタルおにいちゃん」 is finished and 「からかい上手の高木さん」 is ongoing, and both are listed under “Offshoot book clubs” for the Absolute Beginner Book Club.
I feel like I should convert the lists to table format at some point. That way all the clubs can be in their original order, with a status column mentioning things like offshoot and whether it’s ongoing or completed.
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I’m just curious about exactly where Orange would fall on the difficulty scale for misc book clubs. It will be schedule and we’re nailing down a start date (but don’t have it yet so couldn’t add it to the list yet anyway).
I recently learned that (especially when it comes to manga) the difference between BBC and IBC is more page count than text difficulty. (Obviously not always true.)
For example, Sailor Moon is listed as beginner, but not only is it rather hard in places, it was also read a chapter a week and those chapters are 40+ pages; that puts it more at an intermediate (book club) speed, as well as Natively also putting the text at an intermediate difficulty too. Maybe this means Sailor Moon is misclassified, but…
Where would it put Orange? I think difficulty-wise it is probably Beginner, but we might be reading it quite fast by BBC standards (voting on speed just started, so maybe it’ll be BBC speed). Of course, after the club is done, the speed of the initial read doesn’t matter, so probably reading difficulty is more important for the master list?
Just trying to get it clear for when I can add my little 
club.
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I’ll admit I was unaware of this back when I classified it as Beginner. I was looking more at the general grammar usage in the first couple of chapters as a guide.
Or, asked another way, “Easier than Death Note + more pages per week = ?”
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To be fair, grammar-wise Sailor Moon isn’t hard; it probably is Beginner there. And maybe the vocabulary isn’t wide enough to add to the difficulty enough to take it out of there.
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Almost certainly beginner. There is that awkward point between beginner and intermediate that I think a lot of manga fall into, but I don’t think many with a relatively normal setting like Orange would be classified as intermediate or higher. Not to mention that Orange has full furigana.
Where did you hear that? I know that’s often the case for books selected between intermediate and advanced book clubs, but intermediate book club picks so few manga I’ve never heard this comparison with beginner book club before.
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I kinda asked which book club I should join, or had the ability to join. So it wasn’t specifically about manga. But then it might have been more about my situation/reading ability, rather than in a kinda general sense about the clubs.
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Hey there,
Is it here where nominations are done?
I’d like to see if there’s any interest in reading 進撃の巨人 (Attack On Titan)
I begun reading it this morning and am currently compiling dictionary sheets.
Don’t know if I’ll realize that it’s too hard for my level and stop on the 10th page tho haha, I’m just trying and see how far I’m able to get.
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If you want to nominate it for a specific club such as the Intermediate book club (I think most were in agreement that AoT is a bit hard for Beginner book club). You’d do that in their home thread, here and use the template available in the first post.
On the other hand, if you are hoping to start an independent book club (which would be listed under miscellaneous book clubs (scheduled/non-scheduled)), the best way to check interest is to create your own topic in reading/book clubs (have we decided where those interest seeking topics fits best? I can’t remember 
) and see if any other people are interested in reading it right now.
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Thanks for your answer,
Well I’d say that if this manga really fits into the intermediate category, there’s no chance I’ll be able to get to the end of chapter 1…
On the other hand, if I make it, everyone can make it 
so I’ll nominate it in the beginner book club eventually, or just put it aside and not nominate it at all
That’s what I’m going to do, thanks for the advice!
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Anyone could technically read anything with enough tenacity and aggressive use of dictionaries and grammar look ups. However, not everyone has that time/energy available for extended periods of time, and the more they struggle with reading something, the more likely they are to drop it.
The reason AoT probably don’t fit in Beginner is because it would be too much struggling for most people at that reading level. Not that it would be impossible for them to get through it. ^^
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Also isn’t it like a chapter a week?
My man here reading 2 a day of Takagi. 
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Which one is a chapter a week? Because depending on chapter length, that is true for either club. xD
Looking at Natively, Takagi is level 19 and AoT is level 29. So the difference in difficulty is quite a lot. But at the same time, if @mariodesu can read about 35-50 manga pages a week of AoT, I think technically it could be nominated in IBC and they would be able to keep up since that is the general speed (I think?) for that club. Although it wouldn’t have a chance to be voted and won for a few months since IBC aren’t currently voting (seems next pick will start late October so voting would be late August/early September somewhere).
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I see what you mean, in fact I have to say that I am being able to put into it high quality resources, but 2 months and 18 days ago I didn’t even know hiragana, I mean I’m pretty weak at everything atm so I’m confident that if I can make it, every well intentioned beginner can make it!
Yesterday I did 3 
Now that I think of it, it may definitely be the case of an Intermediate book club because a volume is divided into 5 chapters if I’m not wrong, while Takagi-san is divided into 9, that means a lot of pages to read every week if it will be divided into weekly chapters read.
I don’t really know anything else on the difficulty tho, will update later also if encounter too difficult stuff
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