Just another voice chiming in re: home threads and scheduling.
In the VN club on the WK forums, we utilize home threads for each pick (in addition to the weekly discussion threads)
It just keeps this main “organizational” thread a bit cleaner and easier to follow. It also means that it future-proofs a little bit for people. If somebody comes in later and wants to read along with an old pick, they have a single home thread they have to go to that they know will be just for that pick; instead of having to scroll through a potentially ballooning and busier and busier main organizational thread, where things could easily get lost.
For example:
This is the organizational thread on WK (similar to this one we are speaking in now):
It’s used for organizing votes, accepting submissions, etc, and is otherwise only there to get all the “behind the scenes” bits taken care of.
And then we have the 9-Nine home thread:
Here, everything related specifically to 9-Nine happens. This is especially useful for VNs that are split across multiple episodes (like 9-nine). Now you have one thread to organize however many different episodes from, without adding noise to the main organizational thread. It’s kept things really clean and smooth.
The same format is used for the book clubs, and again, it just keeps things cleaner and easier to follow, especially for anybody who comes in after the fact.
As for scheduling, 9-Nine follows the “club leader reads ahead each week, picks an appropriate endpoint within a ballpark range of character amount per week,” and it works well. I’ve been running the Fatal Twelve club on a similar scheduling method (though I also went ahead several weeks to frontload the work). It works well enough, and keeps things running well for picks that don’t have perfect chapter dividers.
…which is a lot of words to say I agree completely with what @Legato is suggesting.