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title: "Book club"
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description: "Low-commitment book club over plaintext mailing lists"
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date: 2024-06-26T18:46:34-04:00
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cover: ./cover.png
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type: generic
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---
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This is a mailing list-based book club co-organised by myself and [Jake
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Bauer.][jb] We intend to follow much of [how Phil Eaton runs his book
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clubs,][pebc] albeit with slight tweaks.
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[jb]: https://paritybit.ca
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[pebc]: https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-05-30-how-i-run-book-clubs.html
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- Anyone can join whether or not they intend to participate; lurkers are
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welcome!
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- We'll read some amount of the current book each week, then a discussion leader
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will start a new thread over the weekend that anyone can reply to.
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- Each book gets a new mailing list, so briefly dropping out if you're not
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interested in the next book is as easy as not subscribing to that list.
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- Once the group decides on the next book, Amolith or Jake will post it to the
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announcements list.
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- We'll try to limit the amount of reading each week to something a fairly busy
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person can keep up with.
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## Joining
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- Subscribe to the low-volume announcement list by sending an email to
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[~amolith/book-club-announce+subscribe@lists.sr.ht.][ann-compat] No human will
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see the email, so the body and subject can contain anything.
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- Replace `+subscribe` with `+unsubscribe` to unsubscribe.
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- If you intend to participate, please read over SourceHut's [mailing list
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etiquette][mle] page, then subscribe to the book's list (below) the same way
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as the announcement list.
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- [~amolith/book-club-how-to-do-nothing+subscribe@lists.sr.ht][first-compat]
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We'll try to keep this up-to-date.
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[mle]: https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md
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[ann-compat]: mailto:u.amolith.book-club-announce+subscribe@lists.sr.ht
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[first-compat]: mailto:u.amolith.book-club-how-to-do-nothing+subscribe@lists.sr.ht
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## Public archives
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- **[book-club-announce][ann-web]:** Book club announcements—new lists, dates,
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etc.
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- **[book-club-how-to-do-nothing][first-web]:** _How To Do Nothing: Resisting the
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Attention Economy_, by Jenny Odell ([Wikipedia])
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[ann-web]: https://lists.sr.ht/~amolith/book-club-announce
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[first-web]: https://lists.sr.ht/~amolith/book-club-how-to-do-nothing
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[Wikipedia]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=9781612197500
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## Differences between this and Phil's book club
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We use [lists.sr.ht] instead of Google Groups, which does give us access to the
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finer permissions Phil mentioned were missing from Google Groups. Anyone can
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browse and reply to existing threads but neither create new threads nor
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moderate. Discussion leaders can browse, reply, and create threads, but not
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moderate. For now, Amolith and Jake are the only ones with full access to all
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the lists, though we'll appoint additional moderators should they become
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necessary.
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[lists.sr.ht]: https://lists.sr.ht
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We don't have access to any kind of metrics beyond the number of replies to
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threads. SourceHut doesn't expose _any_ information about subscribers or even
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give us a subscriber count.
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