Posted by Dr. Bob on September 22, 2004, at 18:47:43
In reply to alternatives to 3 books?, posted by badhaircut on September 21, 2004, at 12:42:11
> having just 3 books in each board's introduction header is bound to be biased... Rather than just 3 books per board, maybe we could have...
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> 1. A rotating selection of 3 books?
> 2. A link to a much larger list of books each with a brief comment from the recommending Babbler?
> 3. A link to a larger list that Babblers could use to vote their recommendations?Thanks for the great ideas, this is kind of improv, you know...
1. I think there's a difference between being "featured this month" and being "the top 3". The top 3 could rotate whenever the cumulative ranks changed? We tried having a rotation at PB Books at the beginning...
2. That was how the original Books area was set up:
http://www.dr-bob.org/books/babble.html
but that was too much to maintain (by hand).
3. They're not like ballots you can vote from directly, but there are already lists at PB Open and PB Tips:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-open/links/PsychoBabble_Book_Cl_001013643129
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-open/links/PsychoBabble_Book_Su_001016920361
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psycho-babble-tips/links/PsychoBabble_Book_Cl_001013564781> I think Bob likes mouse-overs! :)
Otherwise, the Books page took forever to load...
> Maybe a separate list for each board? That way, the books in each list *might* be somewhat topically related. (I hope such lists could be compiled, not just updated, automatically.)
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> Maybe they could be arranged by, well, popularity?
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> I realize I'm asking for about 500 lines of code here, but would it be possible to cast votes for books on such a list? Sort of like how you can vote for the reviews at Amazon. Maybe each Babbler could get 3 votes per board, or something like that.Maybe I should try to do this with a database. Then people could just select which boards they want to include and sort it however they like?
I guess I'm thinking of linking to a book as voting for it...
Bob
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