Enabling post counts for this section will definitely work in increasing traffic volume, but it will also attract trolls and spam. I guess this is out?

Some book forums I visit have events where people pick a book to read, and then discuss chapter by chapter. It doesn't have to be a new book, sometimes they reread and discuss to better understand it.

Encourage people to write book reviews? I did a few but then got crushed under a mountain load of work. And killing trolls in RWI was too much fun.

Why not expand the reading circle to the literary circle? Budding writers can post their works and get critique. Fan-fiction is ever popular, and original work might lead to us discovering a gem of a writer.

That's about it for now. Hungry.