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So a bunch of us in #code4lib are thinking of starting up a book club to read tech books together, learn from each other in the process, and hopefully use a bit of peer pressure to propel ourselves into actually finishing a book. The first book we're propsing to read is Practical Common Lisp [1] which is available in print and also online. Lisp and functional languages in general are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the moment, so we figured this might be a good one to start with. It won a Jolt Award [2], and is also very umm...practical--building working code to parse ID3 tags (metadata!) and the like. Should we create a google group or something? Any suggested name for the group? Is there really any need to limit our membership to people in libraries? How about books4code? Interested? Suggestions? Bueller? There's a page [3] on the code4lib site, but feel free to respond in here. [1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ [2] http://www.ddj.com/joltawards/ [3] http://www.code4lib.org/bookclub