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In our old group, we used to take turns in choosing what to read. We would then all source the book independently. I tended to buy coz I'm like that. Some people would borrow from other people - inside or outside the group, some from the public library system, and we had two teachers in the group so they would raid their school's libraries as well.It mostly worked, but a few times it didn't.
I know our public libraries now have book club sets they loan out only to bookclubs.
Rusalka wrote: "In our old group, we used to take turns in choosing what to read. We would then all source the book independently. I tended to buy coz I'm like that. Some people would borrow from other people - in..."My library does the same thing. The have special books set aside for bookclubs.
Our library also has book club books sets. unfortunately, the title selection was somewhat limited and we soon felt restricted by that choice.
Where we've been using library stock, I've been accepting suggestions, which I then screen to ensure there are sufficient copies. Then, once a year, we pick 15 books, of which we'll read 12 over the next year. the extra is to give the librarian some leeway in arranging books.
I would suspect we'll follow the same pattern, but it would be individuals sourcing their own books.
Where we've been using library stock, I've been accepting suggestions, which I then screen to ensure there are sufficient copies. Then, once a year, we pick 15 books, of which we'll read 12 over the next year. the extra is to give the librarian some leeway in arranging books.
I would suspect we'll follow the same pattern, but it would be individuals sourcing their own books.
Our bookclub meets every other month and our selection process and sourcing is the same as Rusalka's club.I used to purchase all the books from Amazon and then the members would pay me back. That started to get out of hand and I decided that people could be responsible for their own books.
Th book group I started going to is in the library and so far we have had 1 meeting where the leader decided what we were reading for the first book and the 2nd book. We decided as a group what to read for the 3rd book and the library will source the copies for us. They do have a list of titles we can choose from as book group sets.
In my bookgroup members are responsible for obtaining their own copy. We found our members have different reading format preferences: some prefer to read on their Kindle or other tablet, others prefer to own new others insist on second-hand and we have some who prefer to borrow from a library. Our books are chosen by popular vote 12 months in advance to accommodate reading speeds. All members are invited to propose a small number of books. The book selection discussion and voting takes place at a face to face meeting.
The final selection is typically adjusted through discussion to allow for a spread of genres and author nationalities. The books that don't make the official reading list are added to a recommended list which gives a great additional TBR list to our faster readers.
We meet by rotation at our members homes once a month. Some members prefer to host their book others are more flexible. We're in our 6th year and this format appears to work well.
I run a book club that meets monthly and, due to a change in the library's catalogue system, we can no longer have books on loan to the group, they'll need to be on loan to each person. Meaning each person will have to source their own copy, rather than the librarian doing it centrally for us.
I imagine that other groups operate with each reader getting hold of their own book, I just wondered how other groups function and how successfully this works in practice. It will be a change for our group, and I'm a bit worried how they'll deal with it.