Ginger, if we go with HotB, are you up for being our guide?

We can keep discussing while reading whatever is chosen next?

I'm okay with that. I was just wondering if maybe people who didn't want to be spoiled for HBP might want to re-enter the thread to discuss the next selection. Of course those folks may be only hypothetical and not actually exist.

Ginger, if we go with HotB, are you up for being our guide?

Sure.

I do have the new annotated Holmes

How is this different from the Baring-Gould annotated Holmes?

Oooh. Fun!

I've had a copy of the Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes (with all 356 original illustrations by Sidney Paget) for nearly 30 years.

It's basically scanned pages of the Strand from July 1891 to December 1892. Complete with dodgy type. Very cool.

Haven't read it in at least 15 years. Go HotB. Choose HotB!

Anyone else want to throw in some more suggestions? And what's the plan for voting on the next read?

I'm good with Hound of the Baskervilles, although I love the idea of trying out Baen. I had forgotten about their free library. Perhaps we could try that next time.

Do we want to do an actual vote for the first book? I'm not sure how to set that up. Wolfram? Someone else? Or should we just assume that HotB is ok unless someone speaks out within the next day or so?

Ginger, could you post a link to a discussion guide or some questions to consider or guidelines or something? I'm happy with whatever you want to do. I just think that experience has shown we need hands on guiding.

If anyone thinks I'm getting too pushy or picky, please let me know. I sometimes get that way, but will back off quickly with a gentle reminder, preferably to my profile addy. Thanks!

If anyone thinks I'm getting too pushy or picky, please let me know.

Not at all! I'm just pleased you're willing to do this, because I am very very bad at leading things.

And I'm, obviously, fine with Hound of the Baskervilles, but maybe we should let everyone know we're putting it to a quick vote?

As soon as you all know what you want to read next, let me know and I'll throw it up with chapter breaks or something similar, for online comment/reading purposes. If you have any idea what sort of marks/breaks you'd like beyond chapter breaks (page numbers?, section breaks? anything else I can't think of?) let me know.

eta: Since HotB seemed to be the leader, and I needed the practice, I put it up here: [link]

It looks good in IE, a little funky in Firefox. Let me know if it works for you all.

That doesn't mean HotB has to be the next book. I wanted the practice, whether you choose it or not. I can do it for each future book that's online somewhere for free, but I can only put up one book at a time.

libkitty, what AmyLiz said.

Deena, thanks for putting it up. I'm on Firefox and it looks great for me. A few lines get cut in strange places, but nothing that disturbs my flow of reading, from what I've been able to skim so far.

I've skimmed some of the discussion at the beginning of the thread, and it seemed like the intention to running this thread was that each Buffista who had recommendations got to choose a book. So no voting on the book, and the suggestions can be thrown out by just anyone, and just taking turns.

It seems to me that since AmyLiz was the one to give that long list, and it looks like HotB is a good idea for at least a few people, we can therefore go along with it without further loss-of-momentum. Just my opinion, of course. There's also a possibility of choosing the following book already (especially if it's one that's harder to obtain) from the other names which were tossed around.

As far as I could tell, there was a post in "Press" whenever a book was chosen, with the dates for the beginning of the none-whitefonted discussion.

Now I'm going to ask what libkitty asked, because I seem to be doing what she was not.