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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
It may become complicated for the user. From my experience it seems the fewer forum sections the more accessible a forum becomes.
I am curious... what's your reasoning for favoring multiple upload sections? Do you think a single upload section could become too messy?
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Three main reasons:
1. As you say, it could get messy if there's a mixture of device-specific and "open" formats all mixed up. It would be necessary to impose quite a rigid naming convention to allow people to find things which interested them, and that could be quite a lot of work for you or the other moderators (if there are any?) if people uploaded things with the "wrong" title.
2. As I said in my reply to NatCh above, a Reader-specific book section gives people interested in developing Reader books a specific place to talk about them. This could get lost in a "general" uploads area.
3. Pure "laziness" on my part. I only ever look in the "Sony Reader" section of MR and it would be nice to be able to see if there were any Reader books in my "home" forum without having to look around elsewhere. That's just idleness on my part, though - I'm sure I could get used to looking elsewhere

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Obviously, though, all this is nothing but a personal opinion. Please go with whatever you think is best. It's very kind of you to provide us with an upload forum in whatever form it takes. I'll be happy with it no matter where it is!