Too Antisocial For Book Club The Chicago Public Library Introduces A Virtual Version

• Chicago Public Library
• You don’t need one of these anymore.

Reading is, by nature, an antisocial experience. If a book is really good (and sometimes even if it’s not) you want to be able to immerse yourself in it completely. Paradoxically, a lot of socializing now—the kind that happens over computer networks—involves reading, which also makes it kind of antisocial.

This is the first time any library in the country has attempted anything like this. The library worked with BiblioCommons, an outside company, to design the new website to its specifications.