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Originally Posted by Kosst Amojan
Ok, sounds like a plan.
But on the catagories I'm still not feeling you. Why just not have them nested, fiction>science fiction>hard sci-fi. An easy way to make sure it all rolls together is to have users submit their books to a admin who would double check their formatting and labeling.
Now how about some forums. I was thinking that user input would drive deciding which books get formated first. And on that subject what formats do you want to offer other then PDF? If any?
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If we receive thousands of books, it'll be really hard to double check everything. I agree that the tag system may not be perfect, but it is also a lot more dynamic than something based on a classification. I'll work a whole lot during the beta and afterwards to improve the search and similar books features of the website, which is in my view a lot more usefull than a plain list of books. Anyway, if people really want some nested tree for the categories, I'll add it too.
User inputs should be the following:
- Comments on almost anything
- The ability to rate books
- We'll log the number of downloads for every book/author
- A favorite system, it'll be a way for you to bookmark things first, but after a while it'll be used as a "taste maker". We'll recommend books based on what's in your favorites etc...
For books in the public domain, it'll be possible for users to send books that are supposed to be in the public domain. We'll then check the title to see if it's the case, and then add it to the website. It could be pretty easy too to add a "most wanted" page where people could ask for a specific book.
We'll offer PDF first, since it's pretty much portable and good looking using LaTeX (we'll always have a table of contents for example). We'll see next what could be the best suited for the website. We'll also offer A4 PDF, because even though it seems that the Sony PRS 500 is doing quite well, there's still a lot more people looking for books to read on their computer than on a portable device.