Although social reading tools are exciting, they’re isolated. As with any other kind of social networking, people using it want to go where their friends are, not to an empty forum.

As reported in The Georgetown Voice, students may distrust social reading technologies that give “professors access to the amount of time a student spends on a reading and how many of the assigned ...

Social Reading is often distilled down to center around sharing highlighting and note taking features with Facebook and Twitter. Many book lovers are introverts, who often have no idea they can ...

Most e-reader apps allow you to post the title of whatever book you’re reading on Facebook, and perhaps a quote from it as well. This is nice enough, but hardly “social” in any meaningful sense.

Readers in one Massachusetts book club spend an hour each month uniting in complete silence, and they are usually reading different books. “It is a sapphic, medieval horror," said Jessie Wright ...

Jennifer Howard, writing on Social Reading in The Chronicle of Higher Education , asks how sociable readers want to be (think of all the book clubs!) and believes digital margins are a way to draw ...

In China, one of the world's largest book markets and most digitized nations, social media is influencing what and how people ...

Social Reading is often distilled down to center around sharing highlighting and note taking features with Facebook and Twitter. Many book lovers are introverts, who often have no idea they can ...