p.s. don't you guys have a community where you rip the books to shreds and point out all the lameness and inconsistencies? i'd love to read that, if possible.

That would be deathtocapslock. The history was that it started at a different comm, which is f'locked. That comm started with OotP, and then did GoF. When we started DTCL I started posting the HBP chapters on both. Now I'm doing CoS on DTCL, and also starting to post the GoF recaps from the first comm. And other people are doing other books too. Long way of saying, read away!