Why not restart Being & Time? The bit about tools is good (S.16?): also, I've skipped ahead to Part 2 briefly and the thoughts seem to flow more easily there.
And let's get the innocent guys out of Gitmo while we're at it.
The longest I have seen any online reading group last was one book. I'm sure there have been more successful ones, but I'm not familiar with them.
Hey could you guys tell me what you think about this? It was sort of my idea when I started READIN but I never really spent the time that would have been necessary figuring out how to design and program CGI... It seems to me like the problem with reading groups is getting everybody on the same page at the same time. But if you have a community of people who read a lot and overlapping stuff, some good discussions could get going organically. So you have like a forum interface with registered users, who can create a folder for discussion of a new book, or add new threads to an existing discussion of a book they are reading, or participate in existing threads.
Being in Time is, for some people, a bit of a tough choice, I'd imagine. I certainly wouldn't fancy it.
Kant, on the other hand ...
I did something similar with fiction last year. It lasted from January to May (5 books; 14-4 participants). People dropped out over time, but some of that might have been a function of the books selected (long Italian works in translation surprisingly unpopular!).
The participants were just humoring you because you're cute. This is why the ogged-led Heidegger group didn't work.
I give you props for slamming me and macking on Amber in the same comment. As a sign of my newfound respect for you, I won't mention your bedwetting problem.
I think a reading group would work if it was devoted to unnecessarily abstruse and convoluted readings of a book that is actually extremely easy to read. That way everyone can explicate their favorite labyrinthine philosophical tomes without others being forced to pretend to have read and understood them, and everyone will have something to contribute.
For example, those who are able to read "Being And Time" or "Either/Or" are free to do so, and bring up its points in the context of a discussion of John Fowles's "The Magus".
9: Once a friend and I, passing time on the train on the way back from Potsdam, gave extremely detailed explications of the t-shirt one of our fellow S-bahn passengers was wearing. (I don't think he noticed.)