[gostsamo]

Funnily enough, recently we started a bookclub in our office and we are using slack. Not sure if we need the app, but we might try it.

The biggest challenge for me is to accept when the team chooses an obviously bad book, but they will learn with experience. A feature about book details sounds good but depends on the source and if it is marketing or a good critical one. Finding the book in print would be a nice feature which is easy for english and big countries, but might be hard otherwise.

Edit: maybe consider a feature for setups where people rotate to choose the book if there is not one yet.

[agscala]

Maybe it would be valuable to have an anonymous "onboarding" experience where people choose the genres they like or dislike, and then the people choosing the book can be informed a summary of the groups preferences.

Also an anonymous thumbs up/down after the book is read could help the group choose a better next book

[Papamanolis]

Such a cool idea! I'm definitely going to explore this feature for the upcoming release.

[gostsamo]

This is a book club. People know each other and their preferences. Also, it would be rather clear if people liked the book or not. Those are functions better left to the conversation or at least, no sense in making them anonymous.

For online discussions, it might be convenient to have a shared board with questions about the book, maybe scoreboard to rate by aspects and do a final grate, but those are fancies, not essential for facilitating the discussion.

[em-bee]

if the team chose a bad book, i can't have been obviously bad unless you pick books at random or without even reading anything about them before selecting. it also depends on how much people read. in our group most members are well read and a good part of the nominations are books that at least one person has read already. people nominate books they read before and liked or have heard good things about. other sources are awards or nominations for awards the authors received, or articles like the best 10 books in this genre, etc...

[gostsamo]

Regarding the bad book choice, people must've read only the marketing and the amateur reviews in goodreads. The author is relatively famous but the book is a disappointment.