As I’ve taken to doing the last few years, at the Christmas season I like to look back on my reading for the year to see what stands out, and to think about about what I want to read in …
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Bookship comes to the browser
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family and co-workers. It’s great for sharing thoughts, comments, photos and quotes while you read. And the mobile form factor means it’s always with you, whether you’re …
Read more books with friends in 2018
A great new year’s resolution is to read more/better books, especially in today’s age of distraction. I made a mobile app called Bookship that helps you read more books with friends, family and co-workers. It’s free. I hope you can …
Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War with Bookship
My mother passed last year from complications due to ALS. She was unfailingly in good spirits during her battle with the disease, even knowing it was a terrible, fatal, incurable disease. My favorite saying of hers: “this ain’t gonna be …
Announcing Bookship, a social reading app
Recently I had the chance to jointly read Dune with my son Erik, Evicted with my daughter Kristen, and (gulp) Thucydides with a dear friend in Utah and one of my nephews. I reconnected with people I care about in …
Social Reading
Reading a book? $9.99 or so. Reading a book with a friend? Priceless. So much of reading is solitary. But the shared reading experience binds us together in many ways, often unexpected. Book clubs are one way to create this experience. …
The limits of Social Discovery
This is the second post in our continuing series on how and why The Hawaii Project recommends great books, and more broadly the key ingredients in a good discovery or recommendation system. In our last post, we argued that the …