Is there any existing off-the-shelf web software for setting up book-club-type discussions?
I don't want to make too much of the infrastructure issue, as what really makes a book club work is the commitment of its members and facilitators, but it would be convenient if there was a ready-made infrastructure available, like there is for blogging and mailing lists.
Maybe the LW blog+wiki software running on a separate domain (lesswrongbooks.com?) would be enough. Blog for current discussions, wiki for summaries of past discussions.
There's a risk that any amount of thinking about infrastructure could kill off what energy there is, and since there appears to be some energy at present, I would rather favor having the discussion about the book club in the book club thread. :)
IOW we can kick off the initiative locally and let it find a new venue if and when that becomes necessary. There also seems to be some sort of provisional consensus that it's not quite time yet to fragment the LW readership : the LW subreddit doesn't seem to have panned out.
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