Some annotations on the books on a list would be good, but allowing group discussions of the books amounts to turning what is essentially a catalog into a literary social network. I would say that sites like Goodreads is good enough for that and the links to it are right on the Open Library site.
_ _ _ "Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence." - Friedrich Engels Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Lovelace" <[email protected]> To: "Open Library -- general discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Editing Lists > On 1/4/2011 10:45 AM, George Oates wrote: >> Hi Roger, >> >> Great question. We certainly imagined that the idea of collaborative >> lists would >> be useful and popular as we were conceiving V1, and have had the same >> request >> from other circles. Also, the possibility that a list could be kept >> private. >> >> We're going to let the feature settle for a little while, but it's very >> likely >> that we'll look towards introducing a way for people to collaborate on >> list >> building. >> >> Are there other group-like features that people could see being useful on >> Open >> Library? >> >> Cheers, >> george >> > > I would like to be able to write annotations or commentary about books > on my lists, and allow a group discussion for each book. > > regards, frank > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
