If there’s no change in the next week or so, I think we’ll make the start date April 1st. (I was hoping the month would start mid-week, then everyone could be happy! )
I think it’ll make sense to decide the reading pace and stopping points based off the English version, and use the end of scenes as stopping points for weeks that end mid-chapter. I’ve had a quick look but I can’t see any ready-made book club/readalong schedules, but if anyone finds one that we could use, let me know!
I’m all for a start in April! Tbh I’m in a bit of a stupid predicament, I already have the physical version of Harry Potter in Korean, but I left it somewhere (didn’t fit in my suitcase) so I’ll only be able to join around mid April. Any earlier than that I won’t have access to the book, and I’m not going to be buying it a second time.
Okay, so we’re starting next week! I’ve put up the reading schedule - if anyone has the time/energy to look up convenient stopping points, feel free to do so (I’m too tired ).
I see you’ve got a rough schedule up. Man, not finishing until November… That’s mega long. Dividing by chapter will probably be easiest given the number of languages involved. (Speaking of, you probably want to let people know to vote anew in the OP as well.)
I’m a bit torn on my opinion with the schedule. I’m tentatively planning to listen to the Japanese audiobook while listening and reading to the Spanish version. JP I can definitely do a chapter a week, Spanish I’m not so sure about. But reading one book until November has it’s own psychological burden as well. But I’ve been super busy these last few months and it would be a terrible idea to unnecessarily load myself down even more, specifically with that Spanish version… So maybe it would be better to err on the side of slow.
From what I could find, each chapter is around 15-20 pages. The only chapters that are longer than that are chapters 5, 6 and 16.
It’s true that the current schedule is super long, but well. Being realistic, I could probably read through that first book in a day for Spanish. For Korean however, considering the difficulty, a couple pages a week sound very reasonable.
It might be worth it to do a poll, see what everyone would like best.
I didn’t realise the chapters were that short… How about we read one chapter a week then? And I can keep the table with the slower pace up for anyone that wants to follow a more relaxed schedule.
We’ve run Japanese/Korean language books in the same thread, and there weren’t any issues (granted, the balance was way in the favor of JP there), so I wouldn’t expect many issues if we did the same here.
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ETA: Just double-checked and there are physical copies of the revised translation, but they have different covers. The translator for the revised edition that matches the audiobooks is 강동혁; all of the following have different covers, are single-volume, and are the same translation:
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But reading one book until November has it’s own psychological burden as well. But I’ve been super busy these last few months and it would be a terrible idea to unnecessarily load myself down even more, specifically with that Spanish version… So maybe it would be better to err on the side of slow.
