Launched in 2013, ReadUps is a social reading app, essentially a web-based reading system for tablets and laptops. Create a ReadUp event and invite friends to read with you for a limited amount of time, sharing comments on paragraphs. Give people the URL to your ReadUp and you're good to go. When allotted time runs out, the ReadUp disappears.
Meet up in your ReadUp.
Leave or read a comment on a paragraph.
Users can message each other (or the room) in a meetup for real-time conversation.
Groups are created using the ReadSocialAPI, so that the hashtag names the group. All users initially log in w/ Twitter, and the content lives at a generated URL.
Users can leave comments or respond to others. A comment is an image, video or text.