05-23-2008, 09:12 AM | #16 |
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I like where this is going. A few suggestions:
E-Books/Deals, Freebies, and Other Resources can probably be reduced to E-Books/Extras and Resources I like the idea of a general category for current gear without a specific category (like PCs and laptops, iPods, etc)... perhaps E-books/General Hardware. This goes well with Kovid's idea of a SW category for conversions, and Jon's generic gear sections. I'm all for Taylor's Book Reviews section... or at least a section that points us to existing reviews sites, with notes related to review and site quality. |
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Wow, you guys are great and well a step ahead!
In the next part (part II), I was going to suggest adding a new parent section ("E-Book Tools"). It seems we'd all agree on the necessity to have independent subforums for popular e-book tools. Also on the list for the next discussion (part III), it was already suggested to include some new sections, like a book review corner, and a place for e-readers that don't have a dedicated forum. Bob suggested redoing parts of the dedicated e-reader sections (like merging developer forums). Discussion of this step I'd like to postpone until part IV of the reorganization, because we have also some other related proposals for the e-readers forums. So before we go there, let's recap on what has been suggested so far to deal with ambiguous and perhaps superfluous sections: 1) E-Books |-News becomes E-Books |-News and Talk 2) Mobile Devices |-General Talk will be consolidated with E-Books News and Talk and the parent category, Mobile Devices, will be removed. 3) E-Books |-Elsewhere on the Net becomes E-Books |-Deals, Freebies, and Other Resources (the title may be a bit long, I dunno) 4) E-Book Devices |-Future E-Book Devices will be consolidated with E-Books News and Talk. Do you agree with all points 1-4? Do you think there is anything we're forgetting related to ambiguous forums? As Tad and Taylor suggested, there is some ambiguity with E-Books->Content and E-Books->Reading Software, and I'm not exactly sure how we could solve this. |
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these seem to be good suggestions to me as well, and i am happy to see the ambiguity resolved. Content is possibly category that is the least intuitive to me (and i see i am not alone). perhaps we could rename it to something like "format info and conversion" ; it's good to have a forum about that but it's not clear that that is the one.
also, i've noticed that format questions tend to appear also in the specific device forums ; i know i have posted some questions to the eb1150, which would probably have been more appropriate in the "content" forum, because it seemed more pertinent (confusion...). perhaps we could add categories (like the genre ones) for specific format / devices to that forum. |
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I'm new here and won't have a lot of input in this thread because I'm still exploring the site. I just wanted to chime in that I would prefer the longer name because I would be clueless as to what "extras" meant. The longer name tells me exactly what I'm getting.
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