[Edit: We are 11 people interested so far!]

Anyone interested? It's very long in total (could be like 2k pages) and people probably dont read it linearly, but I figured it'd be cool to take up on it:)

So far, I'vs finished reading Section A and has been very informative. I've tried to keep notes of it in .md format here:

https://codeberg.org/BlastboomStrice/book-notes/src/branch/main/AFAQ-Summary.md

If this fails, maybe we could pick other smaller books, but me personally might not be able to participate (already reading afaq and another book).

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm in.

Been meaning to learn how to read

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I urge everyone yo join. One of the best resources on the subject

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I've actually been meaning to do a full linear reading of the FAQ since forever. Not sure how much time I'll be able to put in during the semester but I could probably be pressured into doing it if there's enough people not to let down 😆.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yo letsgoo

    I think it took me like 1-2months to read section A (180 pdf pages) which is about 10% of afaq

    So I suppose it will take 1-2years if I dont give up

    Edit: yo I realise you were the one who made the post that this one appears to be a cross-post of, wow

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I'm interested :) would the group reading start from Section A or pick off where you left off tho? i'd be fine with either

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Yooo hello fxomt

    I thibk it'd made sense to start from the beginning. Section A also seems very important part of the faq:)

    Anyone who has advanced could participate I guess on discussions about previous parts or wait or make a new group if there are enough people (kinda doubt there will be enough people)

    Afaq is so long that almost surely some will be behind and others will ahead of others, so dunno how it will go😅

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean I think for AFAQ in particular it's fine if someone jumps in the middle. As a FAQ, it's written with the understanding that people will read it in pieces.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    True

    Hmm, what if we just do a weekly post about afaq and people can discuss their progress and thoughts without making the post specific to the section each member of the community reads (each user will just mention it in the comments).

    It could be like afaq group reading week #1234

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean this might be selfish but for me personally, it would be nice to have some amount of structure and "peer pressure" to get the reading done. Like "okay here's the part of the FAQ we're on today", and if someone else wants to talk about some other part that's cool too, but you know.. sometimes. it's nice to do things as a group 😃.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    sounds good to me :) How would the reading group be organized tho? i mean on which platform so we could actually share

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Hmm maybe here like hexbear does?

    Edit: rereading this I'd like to say that we ended up using both this post on lemmy and the /0 anarchism room on matrix to organise it:)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    good idea, should we make a new community on dbzer0 for reading theory, or tracking it in this comm?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For those who aren't aware of how Hexbear does stuff: reading groups are weekly/monthly/whatever Lemmy threads where whoever runs the group pings everyone in one of the comments. So basically once a week/months/whatever, you'd see a thread about AFAQ, and if you want you can sign up to get pinged.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I want to be in pleaseee

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Not sure how is it supposed to work, but definitely count me in!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'd be interested. I've checked out parts of it over the years but haven't looked at most of it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    sign me up!

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Btw, this seems mildly outdated*

    Its latest version is 15.8 (2024/7/4). Not sure how often they update it

    Edit: here's the version history/changes

    https://www.anarchistfaq.org/afaq/new.html

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'd like to try!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can someone volunteer to give that website a mobile compatible viewing mode. It would make it far more accessible.

    (I’d theoretically love to join your reading but the extent of my chronic illness means it’s very unlikely I’d be able to keep up fully. I’d love to jump in and out if that’s possible tho :))

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    When I clicked the link, a couple of hours ago, I just went ahead and read through it all without realising.

    Great resource, thanks for the share.

    I'd probably not have the time for a complete read of a longer edition.

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