Sounds good! Let’s plan to plan then 
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I just got into line for the 4th book’s English translation at the library and it should be available around then, so yay!
I also just put the next one into jpdb so I should be ready for arc 2! 
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TO Books (the publisher for 本好き) is 50% coin back with some volumes additionally on sale (until 2025-07-17T14:59:00Z). Also some are free to read, if you can read that fast 
Look at me remembering to use the Discourse time calculator
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The official check-in has come~ I just finished up my last audiobook (I managed to fit in four since last 本好き. 
So much audiobook…), so give me a day to reset the audiobook brain and I should be good to go on Monday. If you’d like to read later than that though that’s perfectly fine as well; I’ve got plenty to distract me, haha.
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I have not gotten through any of my audiobook+text books I had planned to read in July, but let’s get going on book 4… Maybe 本好き will motivate me to listen more with text 
I also only finished 2 audiobooks without text so far, so I’m clearly slacking rn
Do you want to set up an arc 2 thread or should I? (I’m happy either way)
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I didn’t listen to anything without text, so you’re still far ahead of me there, haha. I’m too cowardly to listen to something purely audio. 
Would you mind doing so? I have some friends over this weekend promising to distract me with a lot of board games, haha.
I’ll plan to start Monday, then. o7
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Meanwhile, I’m too lazy to read anything harder than L29 without it Also, I’m sure you’d be fine with most of my audio only books. My hardest audio only is L27 and its a second book in a series and I started it with text and decided I would try it out without after it sat in my now reading for months untouched.
Home thread for arc 2 is here! I made the first post a wiki so feel free to add or change anything. 
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Has anyone read any of the fan books? Are they worth looking into? (I’m too early into my 本好き journey to be able to read them, but I was curious.)
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Not sure from personal experience but I have been told by some fans of the series they are worth looking into for fleshing out the world building as well as if you want side stories for other characters and some of them have author Q&A in them. I was looking into them but I haven’t bought them yet.
It’s apparently advised to wait til you’re far into the series before reading them but not sure how far in. I did have a chronological timeline for when to read each of the books including the side stories, fan books and the spin off series.
Edit: Can’t find the thing I had for that but apparently each fan book is fine to read after any books released before the date the fanbook was as it should correspond to the earlier books but not spoil any newer ones.
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