Books

Progress on ReadCast! Pulling in reviews from the /books channel. Displaying them on the book page. Would you want to/expect to be able to respond to reviews here? Or would you just want to leave your own review (if applicable)?

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Not inclined to leave my own review

Would be cool if each book aggregated the people who recommended it, and could click through to the cast that does so

Would you leave a review if it resulted in a cast to the books channel? What if it was just a star rating?

Possibly, but the friction is that writing reviews can be a low-return exercise; on one’s blog, a review can serve as a repository of knowledge/demonstration of curiosity and reflection — outside of that, not sure

Star ratings could be interesting but ironically would need to be paired with reviews imo

Perhaps we’re approaching the word “review” differently? (ie, one sentence vs paragraphs)

Yeah I think anything that gives an indication of how well you liked the book or not is a review. Could be one sentence for sure.