Comments on: Summer Book Clubs

By: Jason Pfeifer

Jason Pfeifer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:09:00 +0000

Greetings,

I came across your blog post regarding book clubs. I’m Jason Pfeifer, and some friends and I started an online service called Booksprouts, that allows people to create book clubs, choose books, invite friends, and read and discuss online. We are currently seeking people who might be interested in trying the site out, and giving us feedback on the service. We also welcome people who have blogs to write reviews of the site (good or bad) as a means of feedback. We’re really excited to hear what people think, and on how we can improve the site. It’s 100% free, by the way. Please feel free to check it out.

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regards,

Jason Pfeifer
Community Manager
Booksprouts.com

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:22:00 +0000

My sister is a librarian at the George F. Johnson Library. She does such great events for the teens…i.e. game night, dinner and a book…the four county system is awesome!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:35:00 +0000

We are about to leave Maine, but one of the things we have loved about this place is the local libraries. They have introduced us to great kids authors, read to our daughter at story time, and basically lead the way in saving us from renting DVDs. It’s great to be able to have some insurance that things will be free (assuming no late fees!) when the cost of everything is climbing so high!
Jerry
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By: Leanne

Leanne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:38:00 +0000

We’ll be joining our local library ths summer too, hopefully this weekend. They have readin classes for toddlers in our local so toots and I will be taking full advantage. Especially on days like today, after weeks of glorious weather its absolutely chucked in down today (saves me watering the garden so I’m not complaining). It’ll be somewhere else to go on days when the weather isn’t so great.

By: topaztook

topaztook — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:00 +0000

The bugs theme is something that the library association created; they choose a theme every year and most libraries participate in that theme, although they can choose to do something else. (My mom’s a librarian. )

Just checking: Princess and Buddy are both school-age, right? I checked the Barnes and Noble stuff online and it seemed to imply that only kids in grades 1-6 could participate. (My daughter loves books, but she’s two.)

Money Saving Mom (www.moneysavingmom.com) did a post on summer reading clubs that also mentioned the Half-Price Books/CiCi’s Pizza one; I believe it was posted yesterday.

By: Annie Jones

Annie Jones — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:50:00 +0000

I think bugs must be a national theme this year, as our library’s summer reading program is using it, too. (i.e., Catch the Reading Bug). The number of books is based on age. Pre-readers need to have 25 books read to them, older kids have fewer books but must read them themselves.

I didn’t know about the Barnes & Noble program. I’m going to check that out, too. Thanks!