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Originally Posted by BadBilly
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Why shouldn't there be a Goodreads forum here? We have a Calibre forum and this isn't Calibre. We have forums for a bunch of different readers but we're not the Kindle site or the Kobo site etc. We have a news discussion and this isn't the BBC or CNN.
If this is a site about reading on mobile devices, then it is reasonable that somebody would ask about one of their reading tools and discussing it here. ....
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Calibre's not a social media platform. Devices aren't social media platforms. Why would it make any sense to have a forum discussing another forum? As others have noted, it's perfectly acceptable to discuss Goodreads integration in the device forums where Goodreads integration is relevant, but what would be the purpose of having an entire new subforum dedicated to Goodreads? What would be talked about (outside of the previously mentioned--and already covered--technical device integration topic) that wouldn't be better discussed on Goodreads itself? It's too meta. Should we have an OnlineBookClub.org forum? Should we create forum where folks can chat about John Scalzi's blog? What about a Project Gutenberg forum? Goodreads already IS a place where people can discuss Goodreads.