Posted by badhaircut on September 21, 2004, at 12:42:11
In reply to Re: useful books, posted by Dr. Bob on September 21, 2004, at 7:52:21
> How about if you do conduct a vote there, for, say, 3 books, and then I'll include them all?
I made the point in the Psychology vote-thread (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040918/msgs/393338.html) that having just 3 books in each board's introduction header is bound to be biased, especially in a topic as huge as "psychology and psychotherapy." Rather than just 3 books per board, maybe we could have...
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?> Also, I started working on a list of books that have been mentioned (linked to) that would be automatically updated: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/books.html
I think Bob likes mouse-overs! :)
> That link you showed me... it was going to list every book linked to Amazon?
> Every book linked from here. ... Do you think that would be too inclusive? It could be limited to books that were mentioned a certain number of times...
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.)
Maybe they could be arranged by, well, popularity?
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. That way, people could see what's numerically highly recommended, but also the less-popular books wouldn't get completely excluded from this feature.
I know that my books won't be relatively popular, but I think they could be very helpful and important to SOME Babblers. If the Psychology board, for example, has just 3 books in its header and they're all about the psychodynamically-oriented therapeutic-relationship issues that predominate the posts there, I will feel less welcome overall. Those issues are obviously important, but let's not exclude minority interests right at the top.
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