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Originally Posted by issybird
Take them out or leave them in, just don't double-count. The numbers don't suggest anything except that in the former Classics and PCML months that PD would have shown up in the same proportion as other months.
Moreover, the membership in the book club has changed enormously over time as have options for getting books, and I'd argue that recent data have more predictive power than that of years ago.
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Yes, but you suggested that they wouldn't have shown up at all which is the fault I pointed out and suggested that the real number was somewhere between ten and nine and not an absolute ten. I believe as before we're talking the same point in a slightly different manner. I've always appreciated your thoughts on the clubs.
I am interpreting the numbers as telling me the book club would continue to nominate old books and vote in old books fairly regularly. You can disagree with that, but I have many examples (25% of the time) that suggest the book club has done so in the past and if the trend (in one year) you see suggests otherwise then we should rethink categories with respect to the membership. Participation and membership do change, I think that's normal and healthy. The unfortunate trend I do see in the bookclub is a decrease in participation. Only 23 voters for romance this year? It's the most popular genre out there and previous years had 104, 89, 48, 63, and 27 voters. that is a drop and a significant one. I'm back from a challenge hiatus for the last couple of years and I'll continue challenging the club to evolve and nominate and hopefully read authors we haven't touched.
For the record, I would remove all age-based options from the categories. There would be no Classics, but there would also be no Modern or Contemporary as well. I would keep PCML. It is a large part of MobileRead and we should celebrate that.