Ok, I’ve closed the starting date poll. The top vote was for August 8th, but there were 9 people voted for August 15th. My proposal is we start on August 8th, but we take it at a really slow pace for the first 3 weeks. The first few weeks are the hardest, especially for those who aren’t familiar with some of the more casual spoken language in a manga compared to most textbooks. What I’m trying to achieve is not losing the absolute beginners because we head off at too fast a pace.
The chapters break down like this:
Chapter 1 - 30 pages
Chapter 2 - 40 pages
Chapter 3 - 28 pages
Chapter 4 - 30 pages
Chapter 5 - 40 pages
So my proposal for the schedule is:
| Week | Start Date | Pages | No. of pages | Chapter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | Aug 8th | 3-12 | 10 pages | Chapter 1 part 1 |
| Wk 2 | Aug 15th | 13-22 | 10 pages | Chapter 1 part 2 |
| Wk 3 | Aug 22th | 23-32 | 10 pages | Chapter 1 part 3 |
| Wk 4 | Aug 29th | 35-48 | 14 pages | Chapter 2 part 1 |
| Wk 5 | Sep 5th | 49-62 | 14 pages | Chapter 2 part 2 |
| Wk 6 | Sep 12th | 63-74 | 12 pages | Chapter 2 part 3 |
| Wk 7 | Sep 19th | 75-88 | 14 pages | Chapter 3 part 1 |
| Wk 8 | Sep 26th | 89-102 | 14 pages | Chapter 3 part 2 |
| Wk 9 | Oct 3rd | 103-117 | 15 pages | Chapter 4 part 1 |
| Wk 10 | Oct 10th | 118-132 | 15 pages | Chapter 4 part 2 |
| Wk 11 | Oct 17th | 133-147 | 15 pages | Chapter 5 part 1 |
| Wk 12 | Oct 24th | 148-160 | 13 pages | Chapter 5 part 2 |
| Wk 13 | Oct 31st | 161-173 | 13 pages | Chapter 5 part 3 |
Just a note on page numbers for ebook readers.
The page numbers quoted by the ebook reader often don’t match the paper version of the book. On Bookwalker this is usually because it counts the front cover and inside front cover as pages 1 and 2.
However, if you look at the bottom of the pages some of the pages should have a number on which is the original numbering from the paper book. In my Bookwalker edition I can see page numbers on pages 3, 5 and 6 for example. These are the page numbers we will be using. The first proper page of the manga (starting with the text bubble - おにいちゃん) is page 3.
Any comments?