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user-inactivated  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski: Did you know... (info for new users and a look back for us old-folks)

Well, I'm loosely anti only because I already have ten thousand books to read thanks to kleinbl00 (still working on getting an illustrated copy of Thurber!). I'd rather continue some variation of the current setup.





humanodon  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't see how what I'm proposing works against that at all, but ok.

user-inactivated  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was INSTEAD INSTEAD SUCH A LOADED WORD

Got me worried

humanodon  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah ok. It's just that people don't participate when "their" book doesn't get picked and that number gets winnowed down further due to people's real life stuff. All I'm saying is, if we loosen it up a bit and just do a thing where we talk about books, maybe we can still get people to talk about and share books while still having it be a tag on hubski.

thenewgreen  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd be down with reading a classic. I think a lot of people could swing that. But I agree that most times it fizzles out and it ends up a handful of us discussing. Still, what's wrong with that? Worse case scenario only a few of us read it.

humanodon  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nothing wrong per se, but it does make me wonder if trying something new might not help turn fizzles into trickles.

thenewgreen  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm with you on that. Let's think on it and perhaps consider what has made the sic-fi book club work better than the original bc.

humanodon  ·  3865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For sure. I think a narrower focus certainly helped, but is it more than that?