Here’s how the math looked when Infinite Summer, an online effort to get as many people as possible to read David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, “Infinite Jest,” from June 21 to August 21, got started: 1000 pages divided by 92 days = 75 pages a week. “No sweat,” the organizers concluded, optimistically.

Well, June 21 has come and gone and the math is working against you. The sweat quotient has increased markedly. But it’s not too late, and, what’s more, if you still want to tackle Wallace’s daunting text (the very opposite of the stereotypical beach read), you can draw on a surprisingly rich ecosystem that has sprung up around Infinite Summer: bloggers (including non-literary policy types like Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein), Twitterers, Facebook addicts, and Tumblrs alike are all urging one another on through DFW’s doorstop of a book, trading thoughts as they go about its characters, structure, and those (in)famous proliferating and involuted footnotes.