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.

Deena, it looks fine to me in Firefox, too.

Hi, Nilly!

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

Not at all. I've noticed, in this thread, that sometimes we're too "non-pushy". A little pushiness helps keep things moving.

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

Deena, you rock! (Like Nilly, I skimmed through on Firefox and it looks great.)

One problem we had with the suggestion/selection idea was that it was hard to find a book that a critical mass would enjoy and discuss. By shaking it up a bit, first with Harry Potter, and now with a consensed selection from Gutenberg, we can get a lot more people engaged. I do think we should wait until Friday to "call it" for HotB, but I don't think a vote is necessary.

Now if we can consense a discussion start date, on Friday we can put an announcement in press with a link to Deena's fantastic format. I'm thinking Tuesday after Labor Day (9/6/05). Too long? Too short?

I'm thinking Tuesday after Labor Day (9/6/05). Too long? Too short?

That sounds about right. Isn't HotB a novella? (I haven't read it yet, and I've always wanted to.)

Deena, It looks great in my browser and will really facilitate easy reading/discussion. Thanks for the effort.

I'm glad you all like it.

I'm not sure of the exact length, but it was only 15 relatively short chapters, so it shouldn't take long to read. (I kept finding mistakes in the code where I started reading and forgot what I was doing.)

I have read it before but it's still a great read. I was a real Sherlock Holmes groupie when I was a kid.

I think I'll be a snob and read HotB from my Baring-Gould two-volume annotated Holmes. God, I love those books, early fandom gone mad.

I'm looking forward to reading Sherlock Holmes in English. I don't think I've read any of the stories in anything but Hebrew before.

Oh, and I'm (again) with AmyLiz (hi back!) with agreeing with Wolfram. I couldn't participate in discussions before, but it seems like enough time even for me to read the whole of the text in English.