AO Suggested Reading

I think it would be a terrific feature of AO to have a suggested reading list in which we could nominate a book giving a brief description of it and why it should make it into the list, and then voting on the book will last for say maybe 3 or 4 days, and if it gets more than a 50% vote, then it makes it in. Once a book is in, we can write reviews on it, and rate it on a scale from 1-10. Also, if this is implemented, there should be several different sections, such as *nix, Physical Security, Network Security, Microsoft Security, Cosmos, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, I think that about covers all of my ideas…

What do you all think?
Gotta go for now-I'll be back later to type some more suggestions :P

Sounds like a great idea to me. :)

very good one.

With all the it books floating around I could use some suggestions

Sounds good to me

Gee...what is the Product / Book Reviews forum for? http://www.antionline.com/forumdispl...?s=&forumid=18

Maybe if people actually used this for books (there are only a couple in there) it might be worth a suggested reading list, but the way it is now, I don't think it is worth the time.

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... we actually have a Book Review forum ... damn ... :)

yeah we have a book forum but would be nice to have a book poll to show the readers votes on the books reviewed. say top 10 showing.

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I didn't know abou that forum :P anyways, I still think it'd be a good idea this way we could vote on them and such.....

Dammit Souleman, I was going to say that.....

Also, besides posting a suggested reading, I myself, have made the book (ebook) available to download in that forum

Now that's suggested reading with the medium!

Yeah, I saw that tyger_claw. It was pretty cool.

cF_nM...It's not hard to make a poll when you start a thread. Just post the thread, and add a poll. Have people vote (scale it 1 to 5 or something). Then, if there is actually enough interest, and a bunch of books get rated, then maybe make a site suggestion to have a "suggested reading list" page. A single page with a list of books recommended that all got 5's. Include a review by one of the members....etc. ****, JP could even make money off of it, but linking the books to amazon.com (unless there is something in his contracts that says he can't). But like I said, the forum isn't used that much right now anyway. If we get some more books in there, then the suggested reading list could be useful.

When I get some more time, I'll suggest a few books with a short synopsis of the book and we'll see how it goes...

good idea.

It certainly would be a good idea to be able to rate books, because then you get a variety of opinions, rather than just the person who wrote the review.

The only problem is that most people who bother to write a review either sing the book's praises or slam it down. So you don't always get an unbiased opinion! :D

Well-I just posted the first AO book review (that I've seen maybe it isn't)...hope it goes well ;)