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At the same time, for those very popular trending books like Divergent, maybe we could make special subforums to discuss them anyway up in the regular forums. Or I could probably program a database script that will be able to count the number of topics for a book and create an organized list so for instance if there were 5 topics about a book in the appropriate genre forum, they would be listed together on this "Popular Books" page. This of course would depend on people actually following the guidelines in that section to include the title of the book in the title of the topic, which I could easily program my script to automatically connect.
What do you all think?
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What you are suggesting makes sense. I also prefer to read books before all the hype around them. Subforums for popular trending books sound like a great idea.
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Personally I favour the BOTM being a place for reading an unusual, original book or a book that a member feels has been overlooked or hasn't gained the popularity they feel it deserves.
I don't see the point of a sub forum for popularly trending books (that's kind of a vague term anyway, what defines popularly trending?) but in any case the option already exists for a member to set up a topic for a specific book in the existing forums or sub-forums & take the discussion from there.
What I do think we need is a sub-forum for YA please
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It is part of a trilogy. I like that genre myself and hope the book is good. I am for Sub-forum for YA as well.Fran wrote:I'm inclined to agree Scott & it will be interesting to see how many of those who voted for Divergent come back and actually engage in a discussion about it as distinct from just one line/one word comments! Divergent isn't my kind of book, as you probably guessed, but as a matter of interest is it not a series?
Personally I favour the BOTM being a place for reading an unusual, original book or a book that a member feels has been overlooked or hasn't gained the popularity they feel it deserves.
I don't see the point of a sub forum for popularly trending books (that's kind of a vague term anyway, what defines popularly trending?) but in any case the option already exists for a member to set up a topic for a specific book in the existing forums or sub-forums & take the discussion from there.
What I do think we need is a sub-forum for YA please
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PashaRu wrote:Sounds like it might be a good decision. (Not just because I didn't vote for Divergent and probably wouldn't read it. I voted for The Absolutist.) The YA pop-culture books which are trending are likely to get a lot of votes, but it's a flavor-of-the-month kind of thing. A subforum would be good, as I think the audience is a somewhat limited demographic. I agree with Fran; I'd like to see books offered for BOTM that aren't so much in the mainstream.
I agree. I would like to see more books that aren't as mainstream. I am 22 and still haven't read the Divergent Series and am not really all that interested in it. While I will read it, and it is on my list to read eventually I didn't vote for it. I definitely think there should be a sub forum for all the popular books.
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I wasn't suggesting Divergent shouldn't be the BOTM - it was nominated, Scott accepted its nomination, it got most votes ... end of as they say!
What I was suggesting is that the criteria for nominating a book be changed to favour books that are not on the best seller lists but that's just my personal opinion.
As it happens I have two stacks of books to get through so it kinda suits that I have no interest in reading the June book or the last couple of BOTM books, gives me chance to catch up with my list.
I suggested a sub-forum for YA as it seems to be quite a popular genre & having it's own sub forum would make the site easier to navigate for members interested in that particular genre. No way was I suggesting anything negative about readers of the YA genre.
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Personally I would not favour a sub forum for popular books as I think it's just a)too broad a term & b) too subjective & would probably just be a duplication General Book & Reading Forum (again just my opinion)
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