Hi all,
I've been musing on software tools that might be useful for book clubs.
I'm not necessarily looking for a turnkey solution explicitly geared
towards book clubs, but more a thought experiment of what tools might be
useful for an ongoing "in the real world" book club.
Some needs that software tools might help keep track of:
* A way to vote for what books to read next
* Schedule of times
* An estimator calculator (reading level of book + length of book,
estimated sessions).
* way to add notes or linked materials
* online discussions to supplement in person meetings
* glossary/dictionary functionality perhaps?
In my own thoughts some of the online services like GoodReads, Shelfari and
LibraryThing seems to at least offer some tools and information. A system
that I haven't had a chance to explore enough, Loomis, might help with the
decision making parts.
Part of the impetus for this is I've recently joined a technical book club.
At the moment we're using a wiki, which is working fine, but in particular
the voting is clunky. I could picture something where members can add/link
to something like librarything in a list and the book with the most votes
(w/ ties being broken randomly) is the next book in the queue.
So anyone out there already doing something similar? Thoughts? Ideas?
Jon Gorman
University of Illinois
Received on Tue Jul 01 2014 - 09:41:37 EDT