I was actually wondering if we should use the same thread for both parts of chapter 1 or not. I think it makes sense to set up the spreadsheet the same way the threads are. And I think I’ll basically decide depending on reply volume for the first week. If it is a lot, then have two threads. Not that much? One thread for chapter 1. ^^
Flying Witch uses the same spreadsheet for all volumes. I’ve been peaking in other clubs to look into things. And I think that is quite a nice solution. They have the first volume’s chapter in separate tabs and then each volume (from 2 and up) gets one tab each. I can definitely see also diving volume 2 into separate tabs depending on how filled in each chapter gets.
Also, we will have a lot of fun filling in page numbers since there seems to be max 2 page numbers printed in each chapter (from cursory look when trying to count pages and such).
This is starting to feel like a real club! Schedule set, start date set, vocabulary sheet. Just need to wait slightly less than two weeks and we’re off.
That reminds me, I need to go add us to the master list. *scurries away*
This is one reason I’d probably never nominate 「俺物語!!」. Volume one alone has maybe four page numbers, and they’re all fairly close to one another. Plus, it lacks any table of contents or chapter numbers, although each volume does split evenly into four chapters.) Then I nominated 「耳をすませば」 which is pretty much worse on all accounts, except that it’s only one volume long.
I ordered yesterday (and, naturally, enough other books to qualify for free shipping), so between that and the free online preview of chapter 1, I should be good to go! And my wallet is also crying.
I’m thinking of maybe doing week 2’s thread the same as the first week’s, aka all of chapter 1’s discussion would be in the same thread. I’m not married to the idea, so I’ll go with whatever you guys think (or I guess whatever you guys vote for).
Have Week 2 use the same thread as Week 1 (aka first and second half of chapter 1 in the same thread)?
I just finished Vol. 5 and I can confirm it feels finished, so I will wait to read the other two volumes when the club gets there hopefully. I won’t say anything else to avoid spoilers, just that I really liked the series
From the poll, it was clear people were okay with keeping chapter 1 to one thread, so below is the link to the week 2 participation poll as well as starting point for week 2.
Once again, I’m posting early because I’m busy tonight and I might not get up and on the forums until later on Saturday, so I thought early is better than late. One of the mottos I live my life by.
Currently we are finishing the first volume in another two and a half weeks. (Chapter 4 starts on July 30 and ends August 5.)
Meaning it feels like it might be time to decide if we want a break between volume 1 and 2, or if we want to keep plug away.
Break: Volume 2 starts on August 13th No Break: Volume 2 starts on August 6th
I’ll keep the poll open probably until the end of next week, so people have a chance to feel out properly if they need a break or not.
To break or not to break (between volume 1 and 2) is the question
Either is fine
No break: Start v2 August 6th
Break: Start v2 August 13th
0voters
PS. I’ll make a poll for whether to speed up or not (for volume 2) towards end of week 4 or in week 5. I think we should have a couple of more weeks on 1ch/week before we can decide if we want to speed up.
I just realized last night that we only had two more weeks and I ordered the box set used from Manga Republic! (It’s cheaper than buying volumes 2-6 new.) Unfortunately, I’m not really sure when they’ll get here. But after that I won’t have any more supply issues! (Until book 7, I guess. )
So, for now, I chose the break option, but that might change if shipping goes quickly.
The weirdness with each volume only having a few chapters meant that I should probably have warned people to get volume 2 as they were getting volume one. But I kinda forgot, and then we were here and I was like… Let’s do the break poll a bit earlier than necessary in case someone haven’t gotten volume 2 yet and need a reminder.
Added to that! Volume 2 only has 4 chapters too, so if anyone hasn’t gotten volume 3 yet, they might want to know that we will probably start volume 3 in early to mid-September.
If we read a chapter a week (not to mention if we speed up!), we will be going through the volumes fairly quickly.