Hee! It made sense. *g* I am not up on the book club thing, though, so am having to sort of think my way around this. Having done a fast scan of your LJ and the delicious link you gave me, it looks like you're doing this:
on LJ, tracking and reviewing the books you read, no links
on delicious, tracking books you've read by amazon links, with generally descriptive tags (genre, author, series, reader, booklength)
And I take it you want to make this an overall fandom bookclub thing, where many people can collect their links so people have a centralized place to go find stuff.
Close enough?
Given that, I think having people send links directly is better than subscribing to a tag; that way you're not going to accidentally add something that maybe doesn't belong (if someone who isn't participating just happens to use the same tag).
Duplicate URLs shouldn't be a problem; when you click to save/tag the link, it'll bring up the already-existing bookmark, and you can just add the new tags -- I just sent you a private link of a copy of Dresden Book 2 from your list, with a different tag, so you can see (but don't add me, I haven't actually read the book *g*). (... I should have waited to send it till I finished this. Sorry if I confused you!)
(The annoying thing about clicking "save this" is that it brings you through to the tagged page when you finish filling in what you want, which I'd completely forgotten about and will have to add to the tutorial somewhere.)
The one maybe-problem I can see is if Amazon has multiple copies of a book, and different people use different URLs for the same thing. But everything should show up on the sort-results page if it's properly tagged, so that shouldn't be too big a deal.
For tagging, I like the system you've already started up -- it's very clear. They make a good minimum-allowed set, useful and easy to remember (although you may need to add the reader:username one, if people don't want to tag their own personal bookmarks like that). The star system should be workable; have people use just stars in their own bookmarks, then you can add username: in front of it when you pull it in to fandombookclub.
The book length -- I admit, I boggled for a minute when I saw those, because I'm so used to thinking in word counts these days! *g* But broad page-count categories seem pretty reasonable to me; I looked at them and the next thing that occurred was >750, and then >1000 (for certain "I am too good for editors" authors. ahem.) The only narrower length category I could see being useful is >150, for really slim books/children's books.
For other tags... hm. Maybe reviewer:username , if people want to use the notes section to point to reviews? (Tough if there are multiple reviews, given the character limit, but there should be room to point to at least a couple.)
It looks like a good chunk of the books there currently are also tv shows; maybe a tv or media tag to indicate that? (Or tv:showname, maybe, to be consistent.)
The other tags I'm coming up with are just basic descriptive things that will come up as people go along anyway -- different genres, nonfic, illustrated, children's, young_adult, etc.
I'm not sure any of that was helpful, but I'm happy to keep trying. *g* Either here, or drop me a note at arduinna at trickster dot org.
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on LJ, tracking and reviewing the books you read, no links
on delicious, tracking books you've read by amazon links, with generally descriptive tags (genre, author, series, reader, booklength)
And I take it you want to make this an overall fandom bookclub thing, where many people can collect their links so people have a centralized place to go find stuff.
Close enough?
Given that, I think having people send links directly is better than subscribing to a tag; that way you're not going to accidentally add something that maybe doesn't belong (if someone who isn't participating just happens to use the same tag).
Duplicate URLs shouldn't be a problem; when you click to save/tag the link, it'll bring up the already-existing bookmark, and you can just add the new tags -- I just sent you a private link of a copy of Dresden Book 2 from your list, with a different tag, so you can see (but don't add me, I haven't actually read the book *g*). (... I should have waited to send it till I finished this. Sorry if I confused you!)
(The annoying thing about clicking "save this" is that it brings you through to the tagged page when you finish filling in what you want, which I'd completely forgotten about and will have to add to the tutorial somewhere.)
The one maybe-problem I can see is if Amazon has multiple copies of a book, and different people use different URLs for the same thing. But everything should show up on the sort-results page if it's properly tagged, so that shouldn't be too big a deal.
For tagging, I like the system you've already started up -- it's very clear. They make a good minimum-allowed set, useful and easy to remember (although you may need to add the reader:username one, if people don't want to tag their own personal bookmarks like that). The star system should be workable; have people use just stars in their own bookmarks, then you can add username: in front of it when you pull it in to fandombookclub.
The book length -- I admit, I boggled for a minute when I saw those, because I'm so used to thinking in word counts these days! *g* But broad page-count categories seem pretty reasonable to me; I looked at them and the next thing that occurred was >750, and then >1000 (for certain "I am too good for editors" authors. ahem.) The only narrower length category I could see being useful is >150, for really slim books/children's books.
For other tags... hm. Maybe reviewer:username , if people want to use the notes section to point to reviews? (Tough if there are multiple reviews, given the character limit, but there should be room to point to at least a couple.)
It looks like a good chunk of the books there currently are also tv shows; maybe a tv or media tag to indicate that? (Or tv:showname, maybe, to be consistent.)
The other tags I'm coming up with are just basic descriptive things that will come up as people go along anyway -- different genres, nonfic, illustrated, children's, young_adult, etc.
I'm not sure any of that was helpful, but I'm happy to keep trying. *g* Either here, or drop me a note at arduinna at trickster dot org.