We've been using a G+ community for event announcements and discussions.
It's been fine. We're pretty small so we don't need a lot in terms of
management.

https://plus.google.com/communities/113393567679559625537

 For voting, we've used both a Google Drive Form and simply a discussion
thread.


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Jon Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
>