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An IMDb for Books
darkgray writes "After years of reading books and never really knowing which books were, perhaps, the best out there, and in the meantime getting more and more impressed by sites like the Internet Movie Database, I decided to start a project of my own. I named it the Internet Book List, and now it needs people to vote on books they've read, and even more it needs dedicated people to submit books and author information. Help out Humanity: Add a Book!"
But what is wrong with Amazon's system of ranking books and writing comments about them - they have a lot of info that is searchable?
Hell, they own IMDB too.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Anyway, it could collect or link comments about the book at amazon or other book related communities, to build fast a reasonable big initial collection, and start adding to it.
1. It doesn't look like anything that online bookstores (e.g. Amazon) wouldn't have already. If I want to find out if a book is good or bad then I can usually already do it. /. front page? /. effect. Enough said.
2. IMDB and other similar "serious" sites have paid full time staff that deals with submissions, fixing inaccuracies, and feeding out other problems. This site, however, looks somewhat amateurish. I have seen a few similar attempts (SF-specific though) that are quickly reduced to anarchy by duplicate submissions, inaccurate data etc.
3. As I mentioned in the previous point, there are many such attempts already, often having more features. How is this particular one any more special so that it should be advertised on
4. It doesn't survice the
All this being said, I wish you luck. If you manage to keep the site growing, consistent and high quality (you need full time dedication for it!), it never hurts to have more information available.
When men used to be men
actually amazon owns imdb.com ...... if you click on buy this film you are going to be forwarded to amazon.com ......
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