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A book club is a club where people usually meet to discuss a book that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. They may also be known as book discussion clubs, and meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, restaurants over meals, etc. A club is generally an association of people united by a common interest or goal, as opposed to any natural ties of kinship. ...
A chained book in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University A Chinese bamboo book, in a collection at the University of California, Riverside. ...
Reading is a process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. ...
A modern-style library in Chambéry A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. ...
A bookstore. ...
Multi title clubs
The characteristics of a multi title club are such that each member may be reading different titles from each other at any give time. What distinguishes this from any group of unrelated people reading different things from each other, is that each title is expected to be read by the next member in a serial fashion.
Open loans Open loans imply that the books in question are free to be loaned among the population with the expectation of getting them back eventually. Instead of one member deciding what everyone will read, with all the cost implications of acquiring that title, these clubs usually involve circulating books they already own. Each book is introduced with a short precis. This offers members the advantage of previewing a work before committing to read. It has the effect of narrowing the focus of the dialogue so that book and reader are more quickly and more accurately matched up. The seqential nature of the process implies that within a short time, 3-5 people may have read the same title, which is the perfect amount for a worthy conversation. Examples of this methodology include the Houston SF Book Network [1]
Catch and Release Catch and release imply that actual ownership of the book transfers each iteration with no expectation of the book returning to the original owner. The mechanism of transfer may include a personal face to face hand off, sending the items though the mail, or most remarkably, leaving the book in a public place with the expectation that unknown future readers will find it there. All three methods are utilized with BookCrossing.[2] Book Crossers use a website and a system of unique identifcation numbers to track released items as they migrate through a world wide community. The interaction is largely web centric, but it does not exclude face-to-face gatherings, each of which can take on the traits of other book groups. BookCrossing, BC, BCing, or BXing, is defined as the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. ...
Online Book Clubs With the challenge that not all members of a book club can regularly meet at an appointed place and time, and the rise of the internet, a new form of book clubs have emerged online. Also in the category of social networks, these online book clubs are made up of members of a variety of reading interests and often approach book discussion in different ways, e.g. academic discussion, pleasure reading discussion, personal connection and reaction to books members read. Examples of these online book clubs include LitMinds, and Readerville. A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds. ...
Commercial clubs A book club may also be a method of publishing and selling books. Each "member" of the book club agrees to receive books by mail, and pay for them as they are received. This may be done by means of negative option billing in which the customer receives an announcement of the book or books along with a form to notify the seller if the customer does not want the book. If the customer fails to return the form by a specified date, the seller will ship the book and expect the customer to pay for it, or the business may operate via a "positive option" in which the customer is periodically sent a list of books offered, but none is sent until the customer specifically orders them. Negative option billing is a business practice in which a service provider adds new features or options to the service without a subscribers explicit consent, and the subscriber must specifically decline the services to avoid receiving and being billed for them. ...
Book clubs typically sell books at a sizable discount from their list prices. Often the books sold are editions created specifically for sale by book clubs, and manufactured more cheaply and less durably than the regular editions. In finance, discounting is the process of finding the current value of an amount of cash at some future date, and along with compounding cash from the basis of time value of money calculations. ...
The Book-of-the-Month-Club (founded 1923) is an early and well known example of this kind of business. Others include the Science Fiction Book Club, the Mystery Book Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club. The largest clubs have millions of members. The Book of the Month Club (founded 1923) is a mail-order business where consumers are offered a new book each month. ...
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Non-literary clubs A book club is also a euphemism for a game meant to keep track of how many alcoholic beverages a group of people have consumed over an unspecified time frame, often played by high school and college students. Because public knowledge of their drinking is considered taboo (and in some cases, illegal), the contest is labeled as a "book club," an otherwise acceptable academic activity. The number of "books" one has read is indicative of the number of drinks they have consumed. It is common for the number of "books" the group members have read to be listed on a white board or other erasable medium in a common area of a dormitory or cafeteria. Tug of war is an easily organized, impromptu game that requires little equipment. ...
Functional group of an alcohol molecule. ...
A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, discussions, or people that are considered undesirable by a group, culture, or society. ...
A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ...
One of a number of cafeterias at Electronic City campus, Infosys Technologies Ltd. ...
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