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e-Books, Evenings on The Veranda With Drink and Company of
Choice...
Heck, You're Almost All Set For A Summer Reading Group! Now
that the kids are out of school, the temperatures rising and
the evening prime time programming is set to re-runs and oldies-
it's time for you to begin a summer reading group. How is
that you say? When things settle down a bit during summer,
friends gather on patio's and lanai's for informal 'get-togethers',
to drink their favorite drink and discuss their point of view
on the latest book or best seller that they are reading. Doesn't
one have to be a nerd or a bookworm to enjoy this? No, not
at all! All you have to enjoy are the long, warm summer breezes
along with good drink and good company. That's all that is
needed for a reading group. It can be as few as a couple and
as many as can fit comfortably on the patio or porch.
Now, let me tell you about a great way I came up with for
you and your friends to start a summer reading group without
any of the high cost of today’s printed books! Yes, I am aware
that $12.95-$24.95 each is average and a real stretch for
some folks. No reason to not enjoy the true pleasures of a
summer's reading group. A lot of people today spend countless
hours in front of a computer. Some of that time is actually
work related! For those free moments that one has for reading,
can also be used to print out certain chapters for those in
need like those without a computer and/or those who have a
hard time getting used to reading on a monitor. So, in enters
OLIN and our quality e-books regardless of your situation!
Before we go any further, close your wallets at once! We wish
to state that we do not want to charge you a single penny
for your choice of our e-books for the purpose of forming
a summer reading group! Yes, you understood me to say, zero
cost. If you have been following my articles lately, you will
know how angry I have been over the word 'free' meaning everything
but free! I need not rehash all those emotions again, about
the way certain companies are parsing words to mean everything
other than what is at face value. All I will say is for you
and your friends to browse around our site, decide as a group,
what you wish to read from our stock and then write me an
e-mail explaining how many members are in your group, who
the leader is; and if any of you have read many e-books or
are e-books something new for you and your group.
Now because we are a for-profit company, we hope you understand
that we can't afford to do this for too long a time, however
for the next week or so, let's play! We also need to point
out the enormous amount of free e-books we offer at our site
that would also work great for a summer reading group. Especially
some of the religious titles we offer for free. If you miss
out on the for-sale title of choice, try another or look to
our other freebies. Here are a few rules to follow in the
formation of your group reading experience. I will limit my
generosity to only one group per-for-sale-title and your group
must, when finished reading and discussing/debating, write
a group reader review for publishing at our site. That's it-fair
enough, zero cost enough with only one easy to follow condition?
OLIN gets the opportunity to show off it’s quality e-books
and you get to see what OLIN e-books and a summer reading
group is all about!
One word of caution though, we strongly suggest that your
group adopt the 'one-word-safe-rule'. Because the purpose
of doing this is for you to enjoy reading and the discussing
of different views, we don't want this to turn out a bad experience
by having fights and hurt feelings. Therefore we suggest that
your group have the 'one-word-safe-rule'. To do so is very
easy if set up first before anything else and all must agree!
As a group you agree on a safe-word, whatever you can come
up with will be fine. The reason to do this is not to come
up with some clever word but rather to agree on one word that
anyone can say at anytime to stop all discussions completely
when things are beginning to get out of hand! So when someone
begins to sense that hurt feelings are being created or someone
is getting too forceful with their opinion, one or more or
the group member’s interrupts’ with the safe word and everyone
must stop all discussions of the book at once. This doesn't
mean that everyone must go home immediately, no, it is better
if everyone stay together for a bit, talking about 'normal'
things such as the kids or this brand of red wine etc.; just
not discussing your book for the remainder of the night, once
the safe-word has been used. We truly want this is to be a
thoroughly enjoyable activity without a chance of hurt feelings
with the neighbors that could last a lifetime! OLIN will be
giving away a lot of potential money to do this project and
would hate to be known as the source of any bad relations!
Don't allow your group to fight and fuss, discuss and understand
different points of views; especially if you choose one of
our religious topics. Remember it is not wrong or a sin to
completely understand another’s point of view even if it seems
opposite to your views! Let's have fun and spend the rest
of our long summer nights with our drink and e-book group
of choice in complete comfort and ease without any fear of
the unpleasant.
There is no set time limit per se for this experience. You
may have set times for the group to meet and to break for
the night, due to work and/or other schedules. However, there
are no time limits on this activity from our point of view.
Don't rush it and don't worry about finishing at some predetermined
time or point. Let it play out and spend as long as you and
the group wishes to read and discuss. The only exception to
this is that I would like to have your written reviews for
publishing sometime during the ‘dog days of summer’, around
the end of August, now that should give you plenty of time
so... What are you waiting for? Get your group together and
first pick out what you will read by visiting the e-bookstore
and then establish your safe-word for the group!
Theresa Twogood is Executive Director of OLIN e-Publishing
Company- http://olin.tk -Denver Colorado-USA.Visit our e-bookstore
at http://olinepublishing.com/ebookstore_index.html .
