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Originally Posted by Matthew Bostock
I see where you guys are coming from, but don't you think there's some room for the web and social media to come into play?
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For reading itself, no. Reading is a solitary activity, or something that we do face to face, in small groups. For example, when I was a child, one of my parents would curl up in bed with me at night and read bed time stories to me. As my siblings and I grew older the evening story time turned into a family activity where all of us curled up on the couches in the family room with mugs of tea or hot chocolate, while mom and dad took turns reading to us from whichever book we were currently working on.
So reading can be a social activity, but that's rare. Most readers read alone.
When it comes to talking to other readers about what we read, on the other hand... I can easily see using Facebook to create a members-only page for a book club, for talking, sharing quotes, voting anonymously on what to read next, and so on. So for sharing what we read, controlling who we share it with, and talking about what we read, social media gives us more people to talk to. More readers to get recommendations from can only be a good thing.
