As someone who has been to this reading group several times, my take is that the quality of discussion was good/detailed enough that having wrestled with the reading before hand was a prerequisite to participating in a non-trivial way. From my perspective, the expectation was closer to “read what you can and its not a big deal if you can’t read anything” but I wanted to be able to follow every part of the discussion so I started doing the readings by default.
As someone who has been to this reading group several times, my take is that the quality of discussion was good/detailed enough that having wrestled with the reading before hand was a prerequisite to participating in a non-trivial way. From my perspective, the expectation was closer to “read what you can and its not a big deal if you can’t read anything” but I wanted to be able to follow every part of the discussion so I started doing the readings by default.