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Bookpossum · 06-05-2017, 10:16 PM

As no-one has made any comment yet, I wonder if we could simplify this by deciding on having, say, four spots in the coming year for rotating nominations and leave the matter of pre-booking a spot to one side. If we end up with only three spots taken, we can always have a "free-for-all" sort of month, with everyone nominating one or two books but with no theme. As we know from the rotating nominations, it isn't necessary for there to be a theme in order to have a good choice of books.

So my suggestion is to have four rotating nomination months, one every three months, two Time Period months if people want to finish the last two periods off, and then split the other six months between Regions and the other categories.

The only clear way to sort this out is to vote on it. One way to do that would be to put down all the current categories and have people indicate which ones they want to retain and which they don't. But in this case the vote would be for how many months in the year you would like to see that category.

So we would list:

Rotating Nominations
Time Period
Region
Contemporary
etc

and I might vote as follows on those:

4 months Rotating Nominations
2 months Time Period
2 months Region
1 month Contemporary
1 month Non-Fiction
1 month Biography/Memoir
1 month Classics

or whatever the various categories are.

Sorting it out would be fun of course, but we have to start somewhere!

06-05-2017, 10:16 PM	#263
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	As no-one has made any comment yet, I wonder if we could simplify this by deciding on having, say, four spots in the coming year for rotating nominations and leave the matter of pre-booking a spot to one side. If we end up with only three spots taken, we can always have a "free-for-all" sort of month, with everyone nominating one or two books but with no theme. As we know from the rotating nominations, it isn't necessary for there to be a theme in order to have a good choice of books. So my suggestion is to have four rotating nomination months, one every three months, two Time Period months if people want to finish the last two periods off, and then split the other six months between Regions and the other categories. The only clear way to sort this out is to vote on it. One way to do that would be to put down all the current categories and have people indicate which ones they want to retain and which they don't. But in this case the vote would be for how many months in the year you would like to see that category. So we would list: Rotating Nominations Time Period Region Contemporary etc and I might vote as follows on those: 4 months Rotating Nominations 2 months Time Period 2 months Region 1 month Contemporary 1 month Non-Fiction 1 month Biography/Memoir 1 month Classics or whatever the various categories are. Sorting it out would be fun of course, but we have to start somewhere!