Hmm… I think the ideal solution would probably be to find low-spoiler CGs/scenes like “they just left the restaurant”, but of course that would mean that someone has to read ahead. Checking percentage doesn’t sound like the worst either, but might leave us at weird breakpoints.
I’m not worried whether I’m able to read this at all and more about the pace. This seems similar im difficulty to Loopers, which I managed to read at 3k characters/hour. Marco has around 82k, so possibly around 27 hours in total for me, give or take. Doing this in 4 weeks is challenging for me time-wise (with 1h every day), albeit maybe doable, but I’m not sure I could do it in for example 3 weeks.
I definitely don’t expect people to go slower than reasonable for me, but yeah, that’s why I’m wondering about the schedule.
Home threads are nice for keeping a the main club thread cleaner (e.g. you can find and make proposals without them getting buried and talk about the club), they’re good for attracting people, and also easier for anybody reading the whole thing later. And they can be easily linked in the Index List of Book Clubs. I think pretty much every book club here does it this way. I’m not sure we “need” one, but I think they only have advantages.
(Although either way we would definitely need to figure out who’s in charge first, because they’d create the thread.)