One club for the XLII crew. We read together, everyone at their own pace, and talk about each book chapter by chapter — without anyone spoiling what you have not read yet.
⟡ Joining
Sign in with Twitch and ask to join; you are in as soon as the club says yes. As a member you join the discussion's General thread and the vote on what comes next. Each book is its own step after that: press I'm reading this on a book to read along — you can sign up for one before it starts. Asking from a book's own page does both in one go: once you are in, you read that book.
⌖ Your bookmark
Keep where you are on the book's page, or from Twitch chat in any channel where the bot runs the club:
- !page 120 — the page you are on.
- !ch 7 — the chapter you are in, by the number the book prints (!ch prologue works too).
- !book — which book chat moves, when you read more than one.
- !bookclub — what the club is reading, for anyone asking.
On the XLII Discord the same commands start with a slash — /page 120, /ch 7, /book, /bookclub — on the server or in a message to XLII, once you linked your Discord in your settings. Only you see what they answer about your bookmark.
When a book's contents say where each chapter starts, your page alone is enough: the chapter moves with it. Linked to Hardcover? Then your bookmark and your Hardcover page follow each other — set it up in your settings once you are in.
✦ Talking without spoilers
Every chapter has its own thread, and you only see the chapters your bookmark has reached — the threads, and the chapter titles too, because a title can give things away. Everything past your bookmark is a number, never a word. In the chapter you are in, what others wrote stays covered until you press Show — it may give away how the chapter ends. The General thread is for what spoils nothing: how you are finding it, the narrator, where you read.
Posts can carry fan art and links, and you can fix your own post later. Once you finish the book, every chapter opens, and so do everyone's ratings.
◷ Pace
A book can have a pace — a few chapters a week, or a day to be done by — and a mark on everyone's bar shows where it is today. It is a guide, not a deadline: read ahead, fall behind, the discussion waits for you.
◈ Getting the book
Each book lists where to get it — free, with a subscription, or to buy — and sometimes the club shares a copy with its members.
✶ What's next
Members suggest books and vote on them: 2 votes each, all on one book if you like, and you can move them. Saying "I'd read it" on a suggestion counts too. When a book is picked, the votes spent on it come back to whoever spent them.
A book in a series says so, and its series has a page of its own: every book in it in order, Hardcover's rating of each, and which ones the club read. Suggest the next one from there — or from the vote, where the next book of a series the club reads waits to be suggested — without searching for it.
◎ Staying in the loop
Add the club to your phone's home screen and turn on notifications: a ping when a new book starts, and when someone posts in a chapter you have already reached in a book you read. Rather not see a post's words on your lock screen? Turn that off, and a ping only says where someone posted — which is all it ever says about the chapter you are still in.
Rather have email? Give your address in your settings: a note when a new book starts, and once a day, in the morning, the posts in chapters you reached — the same rule as the pings — and how many more wait further on. One press stops it.
On the XLII Discord, each book has a post in the forum: its General thread there. What members write in General here shows up there under their name. Link your Discord in your settings and you get the book club role, and XLII can message you there, per post or once a day.