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Sfbook.com: Providing book reviews of speculative fiction since 1999

53 points by kinix 4y ago

pyuser583 4y ago
Thank you for the shout out!
- kinix 4y ago
  Assuming you're involved in the site: more than welcome! It's my favourite resource for finding books to read!
  - sfbook 4y ago
    Hey there. It's my site but I haven't had time to do anything with it for a long time Hoping to find sometime the next few months though. Always appreciate any (constructive) feedback or suggestions on what users would like to see :)
    - kinix 4y ago
      Count this as a big +1 for an RSS feed, would remind me to check in more often. Silly-small ux items that are very much nice-to-haves: - Another +1 for allowing titles/authors to be copy-able - I often find myself hunting for the book to buy from somewhere based on the reviews or searching more from the author - Increase the time for the book cover fade-outs, I've several times I've been interested in a cover but been too slow with the mouse/trackpad. In general tho: the site is awesome from a clarity/readability point of view, it's ad-free and the content is excellent. You're nailing the important stuff IMO
      - sfbook 3y ago
        The fade-out, yeah that's a good shout, I set it to a random time but could probably do with increasing the minimum! I'll get the RSS feed working soon as I get some spare time absolutely, and look at copy for the lists etc.
  - sfbook 4y ago
    Also, thank you. It is much appreciated:)
    - kinix 4y ago
      More than welcome! I've been checking in on the site from time-to-time to get ideas for books to read for probably more than a decade now so the appreciation is all mine!
- sfbook 4y ago
  Shout out? You involved in SFBook.com?
MikahWyatt 4y ago
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Agrue8u 4y ago
Looks interesting, but no Rss feed so I will have a hard time remembering to come back.
- sfbook 4y ago
  Yeah, apologies I keep meaning to add an RSS feed back in, it's on my to-do list!
xtiansimon 4y ago
I visited the site to look for something to read. Started by reading a review of something I just finished. Then I looked for a jump from there to something similar. No similar book recommendations. That’s Ok. Then, I found a list of award winning books. Some items don’t have links (presumably not reviewed). Ok. But I can’t highlight/copy any text from the list, nor can I use page reader view (although the site looks very clean and readable already) to even see the text and copy it. I don’t mind the site not recommending, but to have a simple list of books where you can’t select the text is not a good UX on mobile.
- sfbook 4y ago
  I can understand that. The text selection was just changed due to the sheer volume of people copying whole articles and passing them off as their own. I also know you can just view the source and copy so there isn't really a foolproof way to prevent. Maybe if I made the lists copyable and also had an icon to copy to clipboard, would that help?

53 points by kinix 4y ago

pyuser583 4y ago

Thank you for the shout out!

kinix 4y ago
Assuming you're involved in the site: more than welcome! It's my favourite resource for finding books to read!
- sfbook 4y ago
  Hey there. It's my site but I haven't had time to do anything with it for a long time Hoping to find sometime the next few months though. Always appreciate any (constructive) feedback or suggestions on what users would like to see :)
  - kinix 4y ago
    Count this as a big +1 for an RSS feed, would remind me to check in more often. Silly-small ux items that are very much nice-to-haves: - Another +1 for allowing titles/authors to be copy-able - I often find myself hunting for the book to buy from somewhere based on the reviews or searching more from the author - Increase the time for the book cover fade-outs, I've several times I've been interested in a cover but been too slow with the mouse/trackpad. In general tho: the site is awesome from a clarity/readability point of view, it's ad-free and the content is excellent. You're nailing the important stuff IMO
    - sfbook 3y ago
      The fade-out, yeah that's a good shout, I set it to a random time but could probably do with increasing the minimum! I'll get the RSS feed working soon as I get some spare time absolutely, and look at copy for the lists etc.
- sfbook 4y ago
  Also, thank you. It is much appreciated:)
  - kinix 4y ago
    More than welcome! I've been checking in on the site from time-to-time to get ideas for books to read for probably more than a decade now so the appreciation is all mine!
sfbook 4y ago
Shout out? You involved in SFBook.com?

MikahWyatt 4y ago

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Agrue8u 4y ago

Looks interesting, but no Rss feed so I will have a hard time remembering to come back.

sfbook 4y ago
Yeah, apologies I keep meaning to add an RSS feed back in, it's on my to-do list!

xtiansimon 4y ago

I visited the site to look for something to read. Started by reading a review of something I just finished. Then I looked for a jump from there to something similar. No similar book recommendations. That’s Ok. Then, I found a list of award winning books. Some items don’t have links (presumably not reviewed). Ok. But I can’t highlight/copy any text from the list, nor can I use page reader view (although the site looks very clean and readable already) to even see the text and copy it. I don’t mind the site not recommending, but to have a simple list of books where you can’t select the text is not a good UX on mobile.

sfbook 4y ago
I can understand that. The text selection was just changed due to the sheer volume of people copying whole articles and passing them off as their own. I also know you can just view the source and copy so there isn't really a foolproof way to prevent. Maybe if I made the lists copyable and also had an icon to copy to clipboard, would that help?