I just joined a group of really old people who discuss books at the library once a month. I don't know what this month's book is, but I figure this will be a reliable test of my PhotoReading abilities.

I'd like to join a book reading club, but I don't like the style of books most groups read.

Anybody interested in starting one online?

Tracey

Great idea, but I don't want to buy a book I don't like. And I think the immediacy of the inquiries is important for the activation. So an PR book club should meet using something like ICQ. I would prefer a system with voice capabilities. My past experience with voice and net is that it's little on the low quality side. However, that was a while ago.

Other issues are who gets to picks the books, who going to fully activate (or old read). Book availability, I don't mind buying books but for a book club activity I'm less motivated. I personally wouldn't be able to participate for a few weeks, but it will probably take that long to get organized.

Oh oh oh. Mister Kotter! Free books online. The Gutenberg Project, classic books online. Maybe some else know of another source.

No picking books well all know about. No Mobi Dick and books like it.

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A first step, would be to create a list of candidate books. The identify books interested to read, books you have read, books you'd volunteer to act as the expert on.

I do run an online book discussion forum that meets on the last Tuesday of every month at 9:00pm central. This months' book is "Philosophy and the Matrix." The biggest problem is that we're on DALnet, and DALnet seems to be the target of DOS attacks. The room we meet in is #SatanMuse, and my nick is Kaiden_Fox.

There are far more stable networks out there. You could try freenode network, it's largely computer geeks but its very stable.

irc.freenode.net

Tracey

I found out the book today. It's the Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. It's about 525 pages, and I have over a month to get through it. I figure if I can fully activate it in under a week. I'm shooting for 85-90% comprehension, since I'm going to be in a book forum making my first impression.

How about Yahoo? There messenger is fairly stable as long as you stay away from the chat rooms, And you can start a conference which is like a mini-chat room window, but far more stable, and only persons who are invited can join, and best of all, it has a decent quality voice chat that can be used in both the private message box/ conference box and the chat rooms!! One note, to any who use bwgen, it seems that after you have run bwgen u have to restart the comp to run yahoo, it seems to be a bug in the bwgen, or maybe just my crappy comp Hope to see you all on Y!

Is there a yahoogroup for photoreading?

I think it would be optimal for self-activation, either using the Polls fuction or just writing up impressions of the month's books.