Motivation
On this page, I am organizing my online book club. I had the idea to organize one myself after reading how Phil Eaton organizes his. I have been struggling with reading for the longest time, even though I have been an avid reader in my youth.
What are we going to read?
The books we read will be mostly non-fictional literature with different topics. But this is not a hard rule. Suggestions are and will be always welcome.
How does this whole thing work?
This book club runs in cycles. Every cycle follows the same steps. After a book is chosen, I will create a new page for the cycle where I will publish all necessary information. On that page, I will host a registration form where people can register for this cycle. On the same page I will post a table with the chapters of the book, the date until every chapter should be read and also the person who agreed to start the discussion.
After the registration date closes, I will take the email addresses of all participants and add them to a mailing-list hosted by Gaggle Mail. Their terms are linked here their GDPR statement here and their Information Security statement is here.
Every Saturday, an email will be sent to start a discussion for the chapter that has been read until then. The email can be everything. A simple question, a link to something interesting, a summary. The only thing I ask for is that the email revolves around the chapter we read. This way the discussion will be completely asynchronous and also without any barrier besides owning an email address.