Organizing a book club online

My book club is getting ready for our year end dinner to pick the books for next year. We have an enthusiastic member who organizes us by email.

I've been looking at online productivity tools for work, like Google calendar and Google docs. It made me wonder if they would be useful for book clubs.

I love digital calendars, especially how you can get appointments to repeat without writing them over and over. I also love the colour coding- like using different markers. Really, it's all about the stationery!

If we were to post the reading list on a shared freeware calendar, we could access it from anywhere. Like a garage sale- hey, isn't that the book we're reading next spring? Or we could get the address and phone number as we're rushing to a meeting.

I think these tools will have great potential in the future, when more people have smart phones.

It also makes the possibility of digital book clubs possible. However, I'm all about the snacks.

Happy eating!