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Okay, so far we've got these preferences in abundance:

- Tyler's translation, unabridged.
- About 100 pages a week, so we'll choose our chapter quantity each week to fit as close to 100 pages as possible.
- Text chat is the overwhelming preference as well. My only worry is that with the lag for typing it might be pretty disjointed in group chat, but we'll give it a go! Does anyone object strenuously to AIM? Well, I use Trillian, but can connect to AIM that way, etc. Or any other preferences? (I like Kya's suggestion of posting the log of the chat up for people who missed that week.)

So, I'm thinking about an hour a week? Given the times everyone has given me so far, I'm tentatively going to suggest:
Saturday (or Friday) night 9-10 pm EST. That's 8-9 pm CST, 6-7 PDT, and 10-11 am Sunday Japan time. Kind of a grueling hour for the Europeans, and I'm not sure how keen the Nipponites will be to early morning hours. Also, inconvenient for those who prefer to dance the night away. Other suggestions?

And [livejournal.com profile] kalen9 has offered to think deep thoughts for all of us help lead discussion.

To give people time to buy the book and things, we won't start for a couple weeks. I'm thinking, around the 30th or 31st? Or would that be too soon?


... Then I think in five years, when we finish, we should read the Kojiki. *grin*

Date: 2008-05-19 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shirabyoshi.livejournal.com
Eight till nine is fine for me, Friday marginally better than Saturday.

Also, inconvenient for those who prefer to dance the night away.

Excuse me while I guffaw. Have you looked around you lately?

Date: 2008-05-20 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
Just because we're spoilsports doesn't mean everyone else is. Mrm.

Date: 2008-05-20 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shirabyoshi.livejournal.com
I don't think we should allow non-spoilsports anyway. This is a reading group.

Date: 2008-05-20 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shirabyoshi.livejournal.com
... Are you still not biting? For shame!

Date: 2008-05-20 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kirakira-sora.livejournal.com
It always depends on my work if I will be able to make it <3 but for the most part it sounds fine :)

Date: 2008-05-20 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
I think it might be best to stick to one time, otherwise it's going to be impossible to change it around every week. But if it's consistently bad for you, let me know!

Oh, I meant to ask you -- have you had a chance to mail the Valencia vid to Lucia? Or has the upload worked? I don't know if you got my other note about that a few weeks ago.

Date: 2008-05-20 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kirakira-sora.livejournal.com
Oh no its completely fine :)

As for Valencia i just gave up on the upload yesterday so i put it onto a disk today and mailing it out tomorrow.

Date: 2008-05-22 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
<3<3<3 Yay!

Date: 2008-05-20 12:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] omlteaufromage.livejournal.com
Then I think in five years, when we finish, we should read the Kojiki.

DUDE. And then... and then... five years after, when we've barely covered the basics of classical Japanese, we can do it all over again in the original!

Date: 2008-05-20 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
I... I have a modern Japanese translation. I think the original might make me cry.

Date: 2008-05-20 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] demoneyeskyo87.livejournal.com
8-9 PM is fine with me too since those are my most relaxed times to read a good book, ^_^!


... Then I think in five years, when we finish, we should read the Kojiki. *grin*


Oh this one is a great one, ^_^!

Date: 2008-05-20 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalen9.livejournal.com
That time sounds fine to me. :) I use Adium so I can connect to AIM and, er... what's that other weird American format? The thingie that GTalk uses? Whatever, I can use that. ^_^;
Should we start a locked comm for transcripts and maybe any articles or pretty pictures that people want to post while reading?
*is dorkily excited*

Date: 2008-05-20 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
Hehe. Whatever you want! Sounds like a good idea.

Date: 2008-05-20 05:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quinquin
Sigh, this seems like a time when Summer doesn't make sense since I will be more or less off internet for 5-6 weeks during July/August, thus making this impossible. To be honest I don't think I could have handled getting (staying) up at that time in the morning on a weekend either (I'm clearly in the wrong time zone.)

But it does sound like a fun initiative and I would have loved to see if my English would have been up to it. Maybe next book if you keep it up.

Date: 2008-05-20 11:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
:( Aw, I'm really sorry the time zone doesn't work. I'm trying to figure out how many interested folks we have in Europe, and Japan, and the US, and balance in favor of the majority. Maybe if we could get enough people interested we could do two times, so that people don't have to be up at 3 am. ^^;;

Date: 2008-05-21 04:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quinquin
Given all the time zones involved I fully understand your choice of timing. Especially since I would have problems during July/August even if it had been a more convenient timing. Maybe we can see where you are in the book come September, perhaps I can join in late then.

Date: 2008-05-20 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kirakira-sora.livejournal.com
I realised that summer doesn't make sense for me in this respect either since I'll be gone around the same time as you... but I'll prob have internets over there

Date: 2008-05-21 04:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quinquin
Even if I would have internet when in Japan one look at the book tells me that it is not very suitable to travel with (it is massive.)

Date: 2008-05-22 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
I was wondering why everyone was insisting on the unabridged. I thought you were all simply masochistic. XD

Date: 2008-05-20 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyanited.livejournal.com
Then I think in five years, when we finish

Your optimism is contagious.

__

I have no objections regarding date, time, protocol, version, number...

Date: 2008-05-20 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
Excellent!

Date: 2008-05-20 09:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muffin-song.livejournal.com
Saturday night American time is better for me than Friday night, but it'll depend on what I'm doing in the morning. I'll try to make it.

Also, I can try to help lead discussion some weeks too.

When are we thinking of starting? Unfortunately I know of a couple of Saturday/Sunday morning commitments I already have in the next few weeks.

Date: 2008-05-22 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
*nods* So far we've got one vote for Friday being marginally preferred, plus you for Sat. If no one else speaks up, I'm inclined towards Saturday myself.

Yay for leading discussion!

I mentioned the 30/31st up above, but that was just to throw out a date. If you've got plans, we could move it back another week.

Date: 2008-05-24 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inner-v0ice.livejournal.com
Hi hi! I saw your original post, but didn't have time to reply (I've had very sporadic internet access lately). I'd also be interested in trying to participate!

I've tried to get into the Tale of Genji before (once on my own and once for a class), and both left me with a distinct reaction of "the only reasonable response to this is "WHAT THE FUCK, GENJI?!?"...but I'm willing to give it a third try. XD

I might not be able to participate the first couple of weeks if you start it on the 31st, since my university library opens when the semester starts on June 10. But I'll definitely try after that! (also, Manila time is only one hour off Japan time, so 11-12 am Sunday my time sounds fairly reasonable to me...although it might run into family obligations...[/burdening you with too much info])

Date: 2008-05-25 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caithion.livejournal.com
Yay!

And, to be truthful, I hate Genji (the man) quite a lot. He's a rather useless lout. But the book itself is lovely.

I'm going to set the start date back a week, so you'll only miss the first meeting, which I suspect is going to consist of all of us wallowing around trying to figure out how exactly to do a book club on IM. I think (unless anyone strenuously objects) we'll also post the transcript.

I hope you'll be able to make it after that! :)

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