I wasn't aware of this initiative, looks interesting and such a good idea in hindsight!

Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!

I am so surprised to hear about this book reading club, I don't know how it works but I will join and try to work through the book like everyone else.

What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.

Sir, would you care to perhaps elaborate as to how this club business works. Potentially lots of folks interested. Thanks.

Interesting idea! This is an excellent book for learning about concurrency and parallelism. I'll join if I can find the time.

For reference, the second edition includes two additional chapters: "Optimism and manual memory management" and "Transactional programming". Did you intentionally skip those? :)

It's explained on the page. :) Each week someone kicks off discussion. The form helps me find a volunteer for each chapter.

It's what makes it sustainable for me to keep running this group.

It’s not a free book. I believe that comment was a gentle nudge to remind people they actually need to buy it to support the author.

Google groups is a forum but discord has horrible historical retention.

Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to specific comments but it's still presented in an interleaved format which makes tracking difficult when multiple threads of discussion are occurring at once.

If the discussion is light, it's a non-issue, but with 300-800 (per eatonphil's comment) it's likely that it will not be light.

The very first one I did was in person in NYC. Of the 20 who signed up 5-7 actively showed up. I decided to move it purely asynchronous online to make it easier for anyone anywhere to participate. I host other meetups in NYC still just not a tech book club.