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12-18-2008, 12:23 PM | #33 | |
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Mobileread's great attraction and 'brand' is that it is vendor-independent, giving honest opinions and comparisons across the spectrum of mobile readers. Encouraging the separation of all those great contributors into 'tribes' based on what devices they currently use is surely not going to improve this site -- or the industry. I'd suggest some other split ... it could be 'by screen resolution', or 'devices with WiFi', or 'those with GSM access' ... etc. That way, discussions would be based on the features that people care about, not on who makes [designs, outsources, markets] a particular brand or machine. lex |
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12-19-2008, 04:27 AM | #40 | |
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It really helps the people that are only interested in one device (and I think they are the silent majority) find out where to look for info and where to ask for help. Separating by feature is an interesting way of looking at this question, but I fear that it would confuse the users and increase the workload for the moderators, that would have to sort the incorrectly placed threads in the correct sub-forums. |
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12-19-2008, 11:32 AM | #41 |
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Just a few thoughts...
1. I Like the grouping by vendor. Even if the Iliad and the Digital Reader are very different devices, it will ultimately make it easier to find them if they are grouped together. Likewise for Sony. 2. To a certain extent though, I think a device needs to reach a certain threshold of activity before it gets separated into its own category and maybe even forum. In terms of threads, only 4 of the 11 current device specific forums (12 if you include the Apple iPod Touch/iPhone) exceed 500 threads, likewise, these are also the only device specific forums that have exceeded 10,000 posts (None of the others have come even close) ; to my mind, it just makes sense to separate out those into their own category simply because they have so much activity. As for the rest, I don't think it will be that hard for users to find the ebookwise, or the Hanlin, or the Jetbook, by having forums dedicated to them under other devices. My personal thought would be to have a Sony Category, a Kindle Category, an Irex Category,. a Bookeen Category, and other devices category and keep the "Which one should I buy forum" as a separate category. In addition, it might be use to include links to format conversions that might be relevant to the device (if possible in the forum software)... So in the Sony Category, include a link to the ePub and the LRF forums. -- Bill |
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Your proposed restructure looks very good - user friendly!
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12-19-2008, 02:45 PM | #43 |
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Food for thought.
I'm not proposing this be the way to re-organize the forum, but, in case this "strikes" a chord with a lot of people, I put this out there to think about. How about collapsing the E-Books Formats and E-Book Uploads forums into each respective E-Book Devices parent forum, as follows: Code:
Sony E-Book Devices * Sony PRS-700 * Sony PRS-505/500 ( merge "Troubleshooting" ) * Accessories * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats (merge "Content" ) . * ePub . * PDF . * LRF * E-Book Uploads . * ePub . * PDF . * LRF iRex E-Book Devices * iRex Digital Reader * iRex iLiad ( merge "Troubleshooting" ) * Accessories * Software Releases * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats (merge "Content" ) . * Mobi/PRC * E-Book Uploads . * Mobi/PRC Amazon E-Book Devices * Amazon Kindle ( merge "Troubleshooting" ) * Accessories * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats (merge "Content" ) . * Mobi/PRC * E-Book Uploads . * Mobi/PRC Bookeen E-Book Devices * Bookeen Cybook Gen 3 ( merge "Troubleshooting" ) * Accessories * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats (merge "Content" ) . * Mobi/PRC * E-Book Uploads . * Mobi/PRC eBookwise E-Book Devices * eBookwise 1150/REB 1200 * Accessories * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats . * IMP * E-Book Uploads . * IMP Jinke E-Book Devices * OEM/HanLin eBook/BeBook ereaderV3/Walkbook/EZReader * Accessories * Developer Corner * E-Book Formats . * Mobi/PRC * E-Book Uploads . * Mobi/PRC Other E-Book Devices * Which one should I buy? * Apple iPhone * PDA/PPC Devices * eREAD STAReBOOK * Polymer Vision Readius * Legacy Devices * Others * E-Book Formats . * Other Formats * E-Book Uploads . * Other Books Then collapse the Formats/Uploads remaining subforums into the E-Book General and E-Book Software like: E-Book General * E-Book Formats - General/Help * E-Book Uploads - General/Help E-Book Software * E-Book Formats - Workshop Obviously, the Mobi/PRC Uploads section would be the same for the iRex/Amazon/Bookeen Devices and just be links to the same sub-forum. In the end, there would be only these main top-level forums (obviously with their subforums): Code:
E-Book General E-Book Software Sony E-Book Devices iRex E-Book Devices Amazon E-Book Devices Bookeen E-Book Devices eBookwise E-Book Devices Jinke E-Book Devices Other E-Book Devices Non-English Discussions Miscellaneous Last edited by nrapallo; 12-20-2008 at 07:58 AM. Reason: added summary of what top-level forums would look like |
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Nick, wouldn't your suggestion - which includes even separating format discussions - lead to the "danger" described by lexico? To lure away community members by sticking them to their respective device sections?
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12-19-2008, 05:32 PM | #45 | |
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I do promote and will continue to support the idea of cross-platform unity/development, but don't necessarily think the forum structure (in its current or proposed form) needs to mirror that. I'm just trying to think "out of the box" here so please don't take my idea or replies as trying to win support for this (radical) idea. Just shaking the tree to see what falls out... Last edited by nrapallo; 12-20-2008 at 08:04 AM. Reason: typo |
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