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by ericholscher 489 days ago
Love this idea! We wrote up a post about the book club we were running at our small company, and it was great for expanding people’s interest and understanding of different topics: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2022/05/running-a-company-boo...

Picking a book was often the hardest part though, so this tool having recommendations and voting seems like a really nice solution.

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Hi, and thanks for the feedback! One of my top priorities right now is learning as much as possible about online book club experiences from others, so I really appreciate you sharing the blog post!

Interesting to hear. Personally, finding a book was usually the easiest part (probably because we have dozens waiting on our 'to-read' lists). I’ll do my best to make the book recommendation experience as smooth as possible.

Yea we all have a lot of books to read, but trying to figure out how the group wants to learn something and discuss is hard. Especially when the goal is having some business benefit, not just reading for fun.

There’s a lot of “paper reading” clubs which might also be interesting to look in to.

That's a really interesting angle, I've never thought about paper reading clubs before. They seem much more fast-paced and could probably benefit from a shared notes side feature! Thank you for the food for thought!