I have the physical copy already (believe it or not I only vote for books I already own and I’ve yet to not use up all 5 votes) so I can get this for you after work
Given we start slow and ramp up to (up to) 60 pages/week this book has excellent chapter pacing Also I’ll note that the prologue has 2 pages dedicated to diagrams.
Thank you, cat! So if we start slow and ramp up, a possible schedule could look like this:
Week
Chapter
Page Range
Total # of pages
Week 1
プロローグ & 第一章
5-30
24
Week 2
第二章 & 第三章
31-61
29
Week 3
第四章 & 第五章
62-91
28
Week 4
第六章 - 第八章
92-145
41
Week 5
第九章 & 第十章
146-211
64
Week 6
第十一章 & 第十二章
212-264
51
Week 7
第十三章 & インターローグ
265-295
29
Week 8
第十四章
296-346
50
How does that look? The page counts look a little iffy to me, but I don’t know if there’s going to be a good way to shift them around without really going over 60 pages per week consistently. The beginning could be changed around as well potentially, add in chapter 2 to the first week to make it 40 pages. Just depends on our starting speed, I guess.
That looks fine
I have a different arrangement at a similar pace in mind
@cat What does the text density look like in your edition?
I’ve got the 新装改訂版 (paperback, 2022) and the page numbers are quite different. No clue how much of that is due to text changes, or if it’s entirely caused by formatting differences.
For me it looks like this:
Chapter
Page range
# of pages
プロローグ
7 - 16
10
第一章
21 - 37
17
第二章
38 - 57
20
第三章
58 - 73
16
第四章
74 - 90
17
第五章
91 - 109
19
第六章
110 - 132
23
第七章
133 - 148
16
第八章
149 - 174
26
第九章
175 - 205
31
第十章
206 - 253
48
第十一章
254 - 290
37
第十二章
291 - 317
27
第十三章
318 - 340
23
インターローグ
341 - 354
14
第十四章
355 - 420
66
So that would mean over 100 pages in the last week with schedule C.
So far as I can tell the font is normal I compared it to 3 other same-size paperbacks I have at hand and the font looks about the same between all of them. I took a pic but wasn’t sure what to use for scale, so added lip balm
It’s 43 characters to a column. The random bunko size light novel I have to hand is 38 per column and 16 columns a page. That page in your book has 13 columns even with the big chunk used for the chapter heading, so it’s definitely more than 16 on a normal page. 38 * 16 is 608, 43 * 18 is 774. If you look at the ratio that’s about the right number to turn a 50 page chapter into a 66 page chapter.
TLDR I suspect your book has physically larger pages with correspondingly more characters per page.
I’m not sure how this all works given it’s a standard looking bunko in line up with the other books at hand on my table, but it sounds like I have an outlier edition
@eefara do you want to take a stab at making a schedule from the page count @MintTea gave? I likely won’t have time to this weekend
Okay, a little more schedule fiddling before I abandon all of you and go play FFXIV.
…In theory. I worked through possible two or three possible schedules, but they all end up with weird super-heavy and super-light weeks; it feels like we might need some inter-chapter breakpoints if we want a smooth pages/week breakdown.
There’s no real ramp-up, and try as I might I’m having trouble pairing week 7 with another chapter that doesn’t mess up some other week’s page count. I think 第十章 is the culprit; it’s slightly too big. If there’s a good break-point in there it’s possible we could re-jigger a better schedule… I tried fiddling with one, but early weeks weren’t happy with me.
We could just do lower page counts per week overall as well; I haven’t sat down to figure out what that would look like, but it might be easier to plan than dancing the line between 60 and 70+ pages.
Just leaving a vote of “I like this”, actually, despite the shorter section near the end. If I see this right week 7 is Christmas week, yes? Personally I usually have barely any time to read around that time anyway, so a bit of a break of sorts is actually nice
I mean, who knows if I’ll even manage to keep up until then, but I’m at least not complaining about the better chance