# book club

Category: book Nook

## Post 1 by fastfinge (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 9:59:33

We should have a zone bookclub, now that we have the conference system. Is anyone interested? If so post below with books you want to nominate. The only restriction is that the book you pick must be available to everyone world wide. This excludes books in the CNIB, LOC (library of congress), RNIB, bookshare, NLS, etc collections. It does, however, include any ebook that is for sale internationally, any freely available book on the internet (ie through books online or project gutenberg), any audiobook for sale in stores or online, etc. When the nominations are in, (I'll give everyone until March 6) I'll collect them and figure out some way of letting people vote. Voting would probably extend until March 13. This is all subject to change if anyone has better ideas, and of course if anyone is at all interested. This idea is half baked, thought up while eating breakfast.

## Post 2 by fastfinge (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 10:05:05

I want to nominate _freehold_ by Michael Z. Williamson. It's available as a free ebook from www.baen.com.
I find it's view of society and social structure interesting, even if it does fall to preaching every once in a while. It's science fiction/war, by the way. Not the best writing, but it made me think.

## Post 3 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 13:26:20

Lol we should! like this idea!

## Post 4 by TexasRed (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 13:36:20

I think it's a great idea. Even if some of us may not do the conference calls. It would still be a great resource for book knowledge and a way to reccomend a great book.
Carla

## Post 5 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 14:28:59

there is alot to be said for the other system honestly why be so prusdish when can enjoy boks 24/7 illegally.

## Post 6 by krisme (Ancient Zoner) on Saturday, 26-Feb-2005 22:22:20

I like the idea. Maybe we could have two, a regular one and a teen one since there are a lot of good books for teens out there.

## Post 7 by anglwings303 (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Sunday, 27-Feb-2005 22:09:50

I love this idea. having a book club would be really great.

## Post 8 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 28-Feb-2005 0:59:56

Ya! A teen one would rock! And I know there's even some elementary kids on here, not many but a couple, at least some in young middle school. If there's interest for that we could do that too! But yeah. We could even just do it like on Ventrilo, and-or teleconference, and or quicknotes if we needed to.

## Post 9 by kool_turk (This site is so "educational") on Monday, 28-Feb-2005 1:05:28

Does this include getting the books off peer to peer networks?

## Post 10 by fastfinge (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Monday, 28-Feb-2005 9:24:32

Yeah. The only thing we need is a book list. The reason I refuse to use peer 2 peer and other methods like that is it precludes people who can't run the software or can't find the book or don't want to for morral reasons from joining us. That's why I'm looking for a list of freely available books that are worth reading. PG has all sorts of good literature, and I'm not averse to doing the classics. Many of us struggle with them on our own, a group all reading it together might be of help to everyone.

## Post 11 by krisme (Ancient Zoner) on Monday, 28-Feb-2005 14:23:48

Even though you have to live in the U.S to get most of the stuff off bookshare, you could probably get the public domain stuff in other countries. It is free after all.

## Post 12 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2008 23:33:45

Well, are we still doing this?
How about the book or rather play
A Street Car Name Desire.
If need be, I can try to run this. Lol!
We should have a board for this bookclub, and one can be in charge of making the topics on schedule.
I'll put this thing to voting when we successfully have ten to twelve books!