3. • You can share ideas
or read others ideas
Why with out committing
to a book club
Social • You can join a virtual
book club without
meeting in person.
Read? • You can read reviews
of books before
buying or reading.
4. College students
( Using it already
Who in your Online
Course Resource)
Is Social Young students. As
Ipad programs are
Reading? becoming popular
in schools
Anyone!
5. The Virtual Book Shelf
(bare minimum social reading!)
Use Facebook
or Twitter to
share what you
are reading!
6. The Virtual Book Shelf
Good Reads is one social
reading website that
allows you to have a
bookshelf of books you
read, you are interested
in reading and/or
currently reading
7. The Virtual Book Shelf
Shelfari is the same
concept as Good
Reads except the
website literally
keeps a virtual
book shelf for you!
8. Book
clubs
Another part of
social reading is
participating in
online books clubs.
This twitter account
is one of the most
popular book clubs
on twitter
9. Book
clubs
If you are looking for
a more traditional
book club you
should try good
reads. You can join
public books clubs or
create private ones.
10. Book
clubs
Is face to face book
clubs important to you
but you cant meet in
person? Consider
setting up a Google+
hangout where you
can video chat with
your book club.
12. Booklamp provides readers with
the “DNA” of a book and allows
users to create reading lists. The
social aspect of this is platform is
you can email the list to your
friends and/or share it through
social media.
13. This platform allows you to share
books, create groups and share
comment right within the text
itself. Instead of waiting to the
end of the month to share your
thoughts with the books club you
can share as you read.
14. One stop shop ! You can
purchase the book through this
platform and have social reading
experiences. Also puts a
“community Value” on books
based on members feedback.
15. Sharing/Reading reviews
If book clubs are not for you,
you might consider sharing your
review of a book or reading
others reviews before picking a
new book to read. This is also
considered social reading. Good
Reads & Shelfari allows users to
create reviews.
16. Ereaders &
Social
Reading
The kobo app & ereader takes a
different approach to the social
reading experience. As a reader
reads each page they will see a
“pulse” and the pulse indicates
how much that page is being
talked about by other readers.
17. Ereaders &
Social
Reading
Ereaders are also making social
reading easy by providing
readers ways to share their
reading experience right from
the ereader. Kindle’s feature is
called Public Notes & Highlights.
18. Social Reading
Apps
Similar to the concept of
Google Plus in this app you
can create reading circles
and share what books you
are reading with your
friends.
20. “Invades your privacy.”
“People don’t care what
Is Social you are reading.”-Blogger
Reading
A Fad or “it's in its Wild West
days, mapping out
Way of the boundaries, players
staking out sometimes
overlapping territory.”-LA
Future? Times
21. Do you have multiple devices? Do
you wish you could access your
Are you in data from anywhere? Are you
worried about losing your pictures,
documents or ebooks? Well saving
the Cloud? your data on the cloud is the
answer. This program will explain
10 things you need to know the benefits of being on the cloud.
about using the cloud!
When: Spring Quarter 2013!
Location: Library
Programs are only
10 minutes!
