Quote:
Originally Posted by dreams
This thread is in the Deals forum because it is mainly about Deals and Bargains to be found in the Romance genre. Due to this thread being extremely popular, it also contains Discussion (about those books) that is also popular. Possibly changing the future titles of this thread to something like "Free/Bargain Romance ebooks (& Discussion) October 2013" would work?
Changing this thread to "Book Club" (to follow our determination of "Book Club") would mean this thread would be organized to be a Club with a chosen book selection to be read by all and then discussed. That is not what I believe is meant by those here for a "Club".
If the thread members wish to have specific reviews on the books they are reading, that would normally go into the Reading Rec forum in the thread for " Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?". Since it appears to be that some members would like to have the addition of specific Romance genre reviews in one area, it may be best to have that separate from the Deals/Bargains Romance thread.
Maybe, starting a specific Romance Reviews thread in the Reading Rec forum would work best for keeping all the Romance Reviews in one area and make it easier to search for other reviews on the same book. Possibly, a "Romance Book Reviews only" thread would work in the Reading Rec forum? |
I like the name proposed by dreams for the thread, however, do we actually need "ebooks" as this is a forum for ebook bargains anyway? How about
:
Free/bargain romances (& discussion) November 2013?
Trying to keep it as short as possible while retaining all the important information, this seems best to me.
Having a romance review (even short review) thread would be great, and I agree with dreams and others that it should be a different thread, in a different forum.
I am not so sure about adding list of books we've read here. Lists of books we've bought, as in the Sunday confessions, fit the thread (as many of them are bargains, or codes or coupons were used for them). But once we shift the focus from the current price (which is what the thread is about) to the quality of the books (which may be OUP, or very expensive at the time of posting), this seems to me a decisive step towards the Reading Rec forum.
So I disagree with what dreams says here:
Quote:
Originally Posted by dreams
Blue2u, thanks for the clarification.  Due to the nature of this specific Deals thread and the number of participants (and those that just read and don't post), adding what you suggested above seems to fit with the content of this thread. |
in answer to Blue2u's post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue2u
When I mentioned adding books read + ratings to our confessions, I was suggesting just a simple addition to what we purchased. I wasn't looking for anything official or substantial reviews. But if that's what you are intending in a separate thread, by all means. Just wasn't my intention is all.
For example, my usual Sunday post would be as follows:
Book Buys this week: 6 books, $13
Always Enough – Stacy Borel
All I was suggesting was adding something like the following to that same post:
Books Read this week and my rating:
Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles – 4.0
Just wanted to clarify my initial post.  |
I would prefer this kind of information to go to the Reading Rec forum, together with any reviews.
Sorry for not chiming in earlier, but I was first offline and then asleep
. So, what do the others think?