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I had seen some movement to hopefully do it again but haven't seen anything on when or if it will happen. Wanting to know if I should just start reading on my own or hold out and wait for the reading group, which would be my preference.

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Call it volume 1-itis, but three volumes in a year was too fast for my attention span and schedule.

This was a tricky choice when I started it.... do we:

  • Read four volumes in one year

  • Read just volume 1 in one year

  • Read 4 volumes in 4 years?

Each of them have trade-offs, and they will fit different people better. But I think the choice I made is good: it's a human pace, neither fast nor slow, and gets a lot of ground covered. If it lasted too long, more people would drop off in the middle.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

For sure. Not criticizing at all, I’m glad that people stuck with it.

If hexbear had a larger user base, we might be able to have three concurrent groups, one for each volume. But yea, we don’t have enough people for that lol.