social reading presentation for libguide

What is Social

Reading?

WhySocial Read?

• You can share ideas or read others ideas with out committing to a book club

• You can join a virtual book club without meeting in person.

• You can read reviews of books before buying or reading.

Who Is Social Reading?

College students ( Using it already

in your Online Course

Resource)

Young students. As Ipad programs are becoming popular

in schools

Anyone!

The Virtual Book Shelf

(bare minimum social reading!)

Use Facebook or Twitter to

share what you are reading!

The Virtual Book Shelf

Good Reads is one social reading website that allows you to have a

bookshelf of books you read, you are interested

in reading and/or currently reading

The Virtual Book Shelf

Shelfari is the same concept as Good Reads except the website literally keeps a virtual

book shelf for you!

Book clubs

Another part of social reading is participating in

online books clubs. This twitter account is one of the most popular book clubs

on twitter

Book clubs

If you are looking for a more traditional

book club you should try good reads. You can join public books

clubs or create private ones.

Book clubs

Is face to face book clubs important to you but you cant meet in

person? Consider setting up a Google+ hangout where you can video chat with

your book club.

Unique Social

ReadingPlatfor

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Booklamp provides readers with the “DNA” of a book and allows users to create reading lists. The social aspect of this is platform is

you can email the list to your friends and/or share it through

social media.

This platform allows you to share books, create groups and share comment right within the text itself. Instead of waiting to the end of the month to share your

thoughts with the books club you can share as you read.

One stop shop ! You can purchase the book through this

platform and have social reading experiences. Also puts a

“community Value” on books based on members feedback.

Sharing/Reading reviewsIf book clubs are not for you,

you might consider sharing your review of a book or reading

others reviews before picking a new book to read. This is also

considered social reading. Good Reads & Shelfari allows users to

create reviews.

Ereaders &Social

ReadingThe kobo app & ereader takes a different approach to the social reading experience. As a reader reads each page they will see a “pulse” and the pulse indicates

how much that page is being talked about by other readers.

Ereaders &Social

ReadingEreaders are also making social

reading easy by providing readers ways to share their

reading experience right from the ereader. Kindle’s feature is

called Public Notes & Highlights.

Social Reading

Apps

Similar to the concept of Google Plus in this app you can create reading circles and share what books you

are reading with your friends.

Social Reading

Apps

Allows you to highlight text and upload

sections to your social media account.

Is Social ReadingA Fad or Way of

the Future?

“Invades your privacy.”“People don’t care what

you are reading.”-Blogger

“it's in its Wild West days, mapping out boundaries,

players staking out sometimes overlapping

territory.”-LA Times

Are you in the

Cloud?10 things you need to know about using the

cloud!

Programs are only 10 minutes!

Do you have multiple devices? Do you wish you could access your

data from anywhere? Are you worried about losing your pictures, documents or ebooks? Well saving

your data on the cloud is the answer. This program will explain the

benefits of being on the cloud.

When: Spring Quarter 2013!

Location: Library