Readme

The essence of community can be found in a book club. A group of friends, or soon to be friends, gathered around discussing a shared experience. A book. There’s nothing quite like sitting face to face and talking about what happened, how the plot moved, finding out that your favorite character was the your friend’s least favorite. But getting to that point can be tough.

People seem to be getting busier and busier, but the “25 is alive” lobby still hasn’t been able to get that extra hour tacked on to the day. It’s hard enough to get a few people together at one time to talk about a book, but then you all have to choose a book. That means you have to research books to figure out which ones to to present to the group. Then, if you’ve taken the time research the book, present to the group, decide as a group which book to read, and schedule a day to meet, what if that day has to change? Now someone has to take their time to call each person and make the change. Don’t even get me started on that one friend who never checks voice mail …

This can all be easier.

Readme’s passion is to help people interact with each other about books. We can help make online interaction amazingly simple and enjoyable, but we know that face to face is the best so we plan to facilitate that as well. With the first launch, scheduled to be soon, we’ll be focusing on the user’s interaction with a book. The next focus on interacting with other people about those books.

Once we’ve got individuals talking to eachother we’ll do everything we can to help book clubs organize, discuss and choose books for their next meeting.

Book clubs will be one feature of readme.com. Excited? I know I am, heck. Stay tuned for previews of more features still to come.