Thu April 20 2017
May 2017 Book Club Nominations |
12:01 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for May, 2017. The nominations will run through midnight EST April 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for May is: Science Fiction. For a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure by Nathan van Coops Spoiler:
(2) Balance of Trade (Liaden Universe #3) by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Spoiler:
(3) Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Spoiler:
(4) The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1) by John Scalzi Spoiler:
(5) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Spoiler:
(6) Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick Spoiler:
Nominations are now closed. |
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Sat April 08 2017
MobileRead Week in Review: 04/01 - 04/08 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri April 07 2017
Rakuten Kobo acquires Shelfie |
04:04 AM by MGlitch in E-Book General | News http://m.news.kobo.com/press/release...fie-technology Nice to see Shelfie get a new home at Kobo. Also looking forward to the integration of their services with Kobo |
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Mon April 03 2017
bfisher Vote • April 2017 |
09:36 PM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in April 2017! The options this month are courtesy of our rotating nominator, bfisher.
Votes will be made by post. Each person has SIX votes to use. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. The rotating nominator may not vote. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved by the nominator. We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.
* Voting is closed. Final results-
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Sat March 25 2017
MobileRead Week in Review: 03/18 - 03/25 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Feast your eyes on some of the discussions from this week at MobileRead... E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Mon March 20 2017
April 2017 Book Club Nominations |
12:09 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for April, 2017. The nominations will run through midnight EST March 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for April is: Award Winners. In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow Spoiler:
(2) Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack Spoiler:
(3) My Real Children by Jo Walton Spoiler:
(4) The Light of Day by Eric Ambler Spoiler:
(5) Still Life by Louise Penny Spoiler:
(6) Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Spoiler:
(7) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Spoiler:
Nominations are now closed. |
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Sat March 04 2017
Non-Fiction Nominations & Vote • March 2017 |
11:13 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in March 2017!
Non-Fiction
You may offer up to two nominations. All nominees (so long as they are within the category) will move forward to the vote with no need for support from others. Once nominations are complete, voting will begin and also occur in this thread.
I will make a post in this thread to open voting. The vote will close exactly four days from that post; even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count. Votes will be made by post. You will have a number of votes to cast equal to the number of nominees minus one, which will be specified when the vote begins. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that was nominated first.
* Nominations are closed. Voting is closed. Final results:
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Sat February 25 2017
MobileRead Week in Review: 02/18 - 02/25 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review It was the week that was. Here's what MobileRead's been talking about since last Sunday: E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |