like that idea...but IMO how are we to attract more fresh bookworms like shah_ho_nam2 friends in his office to visit here?how do we let them know the existance of such places...juz curious...we seem to have a thread for each book title...well almost...what happened to the discussions in it?i think its the lack of users that is the problem...

Think most book worm will rather spent time reading books than spent time writing it here. But dont mind to post in here though .

ahahaha...QFT...looking at monitors isint something a bookworm would usually do other than doing online shooping or reading reviews for books...hey?it juz struck me! review for books!!!

to attract them to lurk here means they'll be part of LYN big communities. the girl usually likes to talk on movies and the other one more on music.. but we all shared the same interest reading over S.K series. she red some that i haven't and a way on to another la.

but i bet there's more for us to do to lurk people to come here often.. i created a special thread for general chatting/spamming in anime shrine and it has reached 13th stage already. and they can mix up all anime in one discussion as well as planned the upcoming gathering. i guess we can create one like that where we can talk about the cell and then a little mix of dan brown's deception point. because we talked about one particular titles/authors, we narrow it down to one point only. that's why it won't be that flavorsome.

well i named it /as/ very own late nite thread. then why don't we name it /bc/ late nite (bookworm edition).

i am waiting a green light for our mod to give permission for me to open that mentioned topic. if u agreed i will open it for us to talk general all 360 about books.

Make book club easier more easier to view from the main page, heck! i totally forgetten about this sub-forum since i was here when it just started out few mths ago.

Also, please make this sub-forum - post enabled.

post count would be nice to attract people to come in

I agree that the section should be made more visible. I myself stumbled on it by accident Maybe most forumers here doesn't know it exists?

Wow thanks you everyone. I am going through all these with the admins and mods so please give me some time yeah.

Though with post count enabled, I am not sure if we can proceed with the chat thread. We'll see how it goes.

Keep the ideas coming people!

I think enabling post count, like many has said before this, is a double-edged sword. Yes, people will probably come and post something, but the invariable troll will also be here as well.. Personally, I kinda like the pace here. Just nice for me...

Anyways, I do agree on having a "red alert" banner at top announcing book club's existence. But I suggest having that "announcement" banner not only announcing our subforum, but also some activity that we have here. Maybe something on a smaller scale first (as opposed to the "contest" idea), let's just have a book-swap first? Something like, each of us create a (reasonable) book wish list, then we pair up with another person, and the pair needs to get the book for the other person, something like that.

I believe the "book review" thing is already going on. We are already sharing our opinions on books etc, just that we don't have a proper thread, a standard that we follow for reviewing books (thumbs up, star rating system?). I think the books discussion we have now is more interactive, compared to reading a whole review..

Agreed about the post count. It'll definitely attract spammers and mess this place up. I'd rather don't have post count enabled than have spammers and trolls in here, IMHO

How about we create a smalll banner for the LYN Book Club? Something like the one I did for the Retrievers thread *points to sig* Creating an awareness of the club is the first step.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Apr 23 2009, 10:13 AM

Chibi> Hey good idea. Want to contribute?

Everyone else can make some too, we'll pick later and use the best one?

I think that's a good start.. I didn't know of this thread till this month only because I took the time to scroll through all the topics..

Awareness will be a good step... will try to ask if my friend is interested in joining here.

She's also asking me to join her in book swapping.. we are still in the process of compiling our books.

Hi there,

I also just found out about this thread until recently...now I've mostly been lurking, but not many people have been posting here. I like the idea of the book swapping...would love to be able to read other books without forking out so much money! The thing with that is,if we ever swap books, it could be a rule that the books are not damaged when returned...I've swapped books before with some people, and some of my books were just not taken care of properly...sad to say, I didn't swap books again from then on.

Reviews on books would be great as well...a lot of times, I read some books suggested by the reviewers in newspapers and stuff.

i like the book swap idea. and i think that an annoucement has to announce some kind of "event" instead of just the subforum to pull ppl in

I'll try to contribute one but I'm not very good with graphics.

reading is very wide taste.

its quite hard to find ppls who similar.

that why, traffic is lesser here.

example, lets say i love somerset maugham. i come in here and i see stephen king, kiyosaki and such, makes me like, nothing in commons.

encourage all to chat more guys. i shall make support to u all. i also like to reading one. and cos feyhime is here

Im glad that u asked. I have a complaint! I couldnt find this LYN BOOK CLUB until I tried to started something in the Music forum cos i thou music is closer to those who might read books as well. i seriously thought there isnt any books thread existed in this LYN.

So, i think first thing to improve is to add the word 'BOOK' into the category name "hobbies, collectibles and model kits". Or simply change it to "hobbies" then make it fair in between bookworms and collectibles junkies. I do collect books but i never thou it is part of the collectibles so i went to the music category

Look at the topics in this LYN Book Clubs - we have a mass crowd of bookworms here and there is a big chance to do it better by putting this book club upright on the right place. Im sure there are more other bookworms around.

At the same time Im thinking, maybe true bookworms would seldom being a net-addict so they dont come to LYN

This post has been edited by secretsquirrel: Apr 23 2009, 03:26 PM

spot on.

bookworms prefer to be comfy in their reading bed/sofa rather than at a desk with a bright monitor.

Did an el-cheapo tag temporarily

Maybe i can sponsor 30-40% discount on selected books to the winner of the monthly competition. ( if there were to be one )

Well, i'm still thinking about it, no promises