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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