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Go back several posts and you'll see where I gave a possible scenario integrating audiobooks into the current board structure. Audiobook topics would then be scattered across multiple forums, provided sub-forums were created within each of those forums. |
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Seriously, how many 'Recommend for me' threads are out there, which often devolve into discussions of one or two specific authors, or even specific books/series. I see this as a non-argument. |
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08-29-2014, 09:04 AM | #63 |
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The audiobooks thread is very misleading. The topic is Current Audiobooks specials and there are posts in that thread that go back to December, 2012. That thread needs to be like all the others and done monthly and not just one long thread that keeps getting updated.
As it stands now, the sticky does not belong until the thread is either fixed to be monthly or all the obsolete posts are deleted. |
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I think those of us who frequent the Current Audiobooks Specials thread like it just fine the way it it. Tubemonkey updates the opening post on a frequent basis. |
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08-29-2014, 04:22 PM | #66 | ||
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News General Discussions Deals, Freebies & Resources
Listening Recommendations Audiobook Devices
Audiobook Software
Audiobook Formats
Audiobook Accessibility --> adapting audiobook technology for the vision impaired
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08-29-2014, 04:35 PM | #67 | |
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For what it's worth, I'm pushing behind the scenes for a new major forum entitled "Everything Audiobooks" right between "E-Book Uploads - Patricia Clark Memorial Library" and "Non-English Discussions" with two sub-forums: Audiobook Discussions and Audiobook Hardware/Software/Technical Issues. Everything you mentioned could fit in one of those two categories, and if participation is such that we audiobibliophiles find we have outgrown our cradle, then we can talk about further divisions. But let's keep things simple as possible in the beginning, if only to get things started. |
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Integration within the existing forum structure would work, provided additional categories were added (additional categories in purple). Here are some examples: E-Book Readers
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Except that audiobooks are really a completely different beast from what people normally think of as e-books (although Whispersync books are both). For that reason I'm uncomfortable placing audiobooks under the heading of e-books. Sure, you need electronics to make most of them work, with the exception of vinyl recordings played on an old hand-cranked player with a cone speaker, but when people say "e-book" I dare say the vast majority are thinking about words on a screen.
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And I'd like the deals thread to be in the new forum. After all, the people who are going to be interested in the deals are the same ones who would be interested in the discussions, and vice versa. Thanks for advocating for an audiobooks forum! |
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Catlady: You can use the box with a - in it on the right to suppress any section you are not interested in. This will move everything up. This can be in your preferences to be automatic. You can, of course easily expand on of them if you decide to look at it.
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I don't like the genre threads -- I find individual threads more useful as I can mark them and be able to tell whether or not I have checked a deal before. However, I *really* don't like having so many stickied threads in the the deals forum.
The monthly threads did not bother me before, since ones with no new posts would not be at the top of the forum, but now they are always there all of the time whether they have new posts or not. I think that a prefix would be more useful so that they could be sorted out for people that want them. Is that not an option? |
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