thing 19: social reading and book stuff

I am a huge user and lover of Overdrive.  For years I had tapes then cds of books I would listen to, but with Overdrive and the digital world... it is heaven and so much easier.  I talk Overdrive up with my students every year and encourage them to try it out.  Many do, but don't stick with it.  I will keep talking it up and showing the students and teachers where to find it and how wonderful the service is.  We have it for our district as well as the public library.  I tell them about both and use both myself.  I saw a comment on the blog about using NYC's overdrive.  Oh man I will have to wait until summer vacation to really look into this as I already have a library card for the library and was using it for other resources.  This news is worth the entire online class to me!

I have looked at several other resources on the class site and loved seeing the NY resource site with a book a day along with many activities to do with children.  I shared this with my faculty this week along with http://daily.tumblebooks.com/ which just recently started.  What a fantastic idea to get people on the site every day to see what is going to be shared!

I also spent some time looking and enjoying a few book trip with Sail the Boat.  What an interesting idea.  Wish I had a thought on how to use these ones with my students, but it does give me a few thoughts on what I could explore with parts of history and even local history.  The Civil War or the Revolutionary War would be interesting to come to life on the screen with a connection to the books they are reading in the classroom...

Oh my if I look any longer at http://libraryreads.org/ my reading list or TBR pile will reach the sky.  What a wonderful resource!  This will encourage my own reading and selections for book group, but what about a similar site for children's books?  Does it exist? I would love to know... 

Updated: I did find this site:  http://www.bookologymagazine.com/.  Not exactly what I was looking for, but interesting all the same.  Not quite an online bookclub but, http://www.windingoak.com/bookclub/chapterandverse.php gives out there selection of books each month.  Can join if you lived close enough.