We want giant companies to take risks that could pay off - to help themselves, sure, but hopefully that will trickledown into better products for the rest of us. But you’ve gotta give Intel some credit for chutzpah. Intel’s choice could prove smart or misguided. That’s something that the global chip kings in Taiwan and South Korea do. And in a surprise, my colleague Don Clark wrote, Intel plans to start taking orders to manufacture computer chips for other companies. The company said it will spend $20 billion to build two new chip factories in Arizona. Göttsche and Visagie both blog about books and started the club last year when they found that pandemic life left them less able to remember and digest what they were reading. (Discord has also struggled with people using its app for harm.) Only people who clicked on Visagie’s post could read her full message.ĭiscord is most commonly used by video gamers to collaborate on multiplayer games, but people also use its screen sharing feature to play board games and students have used it to work together on homework. Visagie replied that she had, with details of what she thought of the book - but she opted to blackout her text so people didn’t see spoilers.
One club member asked in “Currently Reading” whether anyone had read “Legendborn,” a young adult fantasy novel. They also make use of a feature on Discord to avoid ruining plot twists. Recently there was a debate about whether it’s worthwhile to keep slogging through books or add them to a “DNF” (did not finish) pile. The channel “Currently Reading” hosts discussions of books other than that month’s selection. Within their book club, there are multiple channels, including one for members to tell a little about themselves, and another for those who play the collaborative online game Among Us to have group voice calls about what’s happening. (A library in Ontario hosts a text-based “Introverts Book Club” on Discord.) Göttsche and Visagie tell participants that they should feel free to just observe.
and chat about books that I love,” Visagie, who is 24 and lives outside Johannesburg, told me in a conversation in Discord.
The women subdivide each book into four parts, and participants hop on Discord at the same time each Monday to discuss the chapters, mostly in furious back-and-forths of texts and emojis. Think of the app as like running group texts with your family members, except meticulously organized by topic and with options to seamlessly jump from text to voice chat.Įach month’s book selection has its own text thread, called a channel. Göttsche and Visagie walked me through how their Read Better Book Club uses Discord. Like group texts with family - but organized “Discord seemed to be the most expansive, and we could talk about multiple topics at once,” said Göttsche, who is 25 and completing her master’s degree in children’s and young adult literature.
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