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Reading clubs
A reading club is one of the few places left where a book becomes a conversation. We're building somewhere for that to live.
It isn't open yet. We're building it slowly, with real clubs telling us what they need, rather than guessing.
If you run a club —any size, round the corner or over video— tell us about it below. We'll let you know the moment it's ready, and along the way you'll be telling us what you actually need.
What it's going to be
Not another forum. Every club will have its own, and a public side so it can be seen:
- A page of its own
- Your name, your story, who runs it and how you work. Public, so anyone can find you.
- A calendar in plain sight
- Your meetings, talks and launches. Anyone passing by the site will see what you do and when, without having to ask.
- A gallery of what you do
- Photographs and videos of your meetings. A photo of twelve people round a table explains a club better than a paragraph ever will.
- A private space for members
- You get in with a link you hand out yourselves. That's where the inside things go: the members, what you're reading, whatever isn't for the public.
- Reading calls
- You propose a book, set the dates and the chapters, and it's all organised. When the work is ours, we'll be able to help with access; when it isn't, the club reads on its own and discusses just the same.
- One forum per book, not per club
- This is a decision, and it's worth explaining: if every club had its own forum for the same book, you'd get ten five-person conversations instead of one with fifty in it. The forum belongs to the book, and that's where clubs find each other and other readers. When the author is one of ours, they can come in and talk to you.
How joining will work
Clubs don't sign themselves up: you ask, we look, and we approve. It's not about putting up barriers, it's because an empty or abandoned club page harms the club and the site. We want the ones that are here to be alive.
Joining will be free.
Tell us about your club
Six details and two minutes. It isn't an application yet: it's just so we know you exist. 1 has already told us.