一起讀、一起聊的人
共享的方式是「一起讀同一本，再碰面交換想法」。club 的核心在人與聚會，所以這個意思的重量全在討論上。
noun · B1
A group of people who all read the same book on their own and then meet, usually at the same time each month, to talk about what they thought of it.
讀書會
核心畫面
A club is a set of people who have signed up to share one thing. In a book club, the thing they share is books. Hold that picture and both meanings fall out of it: a handful of people sharing the same book and their opinions of it, or a much larger set of members sharing one supplier who sends them books at a members-only price. The word says nothing about which; it only says that books are what holds the membership together.
club 可以想成「一群報了名、共享同一件事的人」。在 book club 裡，大家共享的那件事是書。把這個畫面握住…更多收起
club 可以想成「一群報了名、共享同一件事的人」。在 book club 裡，大家共享的那件事是書。把這個畫面握住，兩個意思就都長得出來：可能是幾個人共享同一本書和彼此的想法；也可能是一大群會員共享同一個供書管道，用只有會員才有的價錢拿書。這個詞本身不說是哪一種，它只說「把這群人綁在一起的是書」。Two branches
把書送到會員手上的組織
共享的方式換成「同一個供書來源」。會員身分帶來的是價錢，不是碰面，所以 club 這層變成商業的會員制。
noun · B2
A company that you pay to be a member of, which then sells you books more cheaply than a shop does and sends them to you, often in return for choosing a set number of books from its list each year.
書友會（郵購購書會）