ZOMG something might *happen* this time.

[active_apathy]

Yes, one and all, it's that time of year where I again try to do something about making apathy_books happen. Optimism it may well be, but it's my optimism, which I'm convinced counts for something.

I posted about it a while back, with a large, cumbersome poll, and eventually came up with a format that's lived on my desktop for four months now. I've occasionally given it hopeful looks and sighed softly, so now I want to get the community up and running all properly-like.

(So, if there's something you'd like to post about there, please start thinking about it now: some shiny content to start with may help to get users and posts and stuff.)

Author(s): Just like it says.
Title: Title : subtitle. Written as on title page.
Series: The series, a subseries if there is one, and the number within the series (or subseries).
Genre/subject: The genre, or the subject, or the subjects. For some fiction, setting (Dragonlance, Middle-Earth, wherever) will count as a subject. Non-fiction about fiction has the fiction as a subject (ie, the Firefly Visual Companion is about Firefly). Biography has a person for a subject.
Rating: A number from 0-10.

Publisher: Publisher, year. Usually on the back of the title page.
Extent: Number of volumes, and the number on the last page.
Illustration: Basic information: maps, diagrams, photos, portraits, etc. - specifics go in review text.
ISBN: ISBN-10, ISBN-13 if there is one (it's the 13-digit number under the barcode), because we love our bookseller friends.
Notes: Short, concise notes on important details not listed above - again, specifics in text.

The things listed up the top would be compulsory, and those below, strongly encouraged. With help from pointy objects. Thoughts? Opinions? Do tell, because this is really, really going to happen this time.

Also, for those likely to post things, I'd like to have some tags premade to help decide what they should look like. So, if there's things you'd like to review for the Interwebs, comment with some authors, series, genres, and subjects for me.

And if there's anything else you can think of, please do comment about that too.

Comments

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

It sounds like an interesting idea. I'm willing to wander in to make people read good books. (I know people who haven't read H2G2!! SHOCK!)

Also, your HP7 spoiler icon with the lolkitty? I fell off my chair laughing. I'm stealing that one.

~Sor

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

And, this one? Shiny. :D

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to do this whenever I do a Thumbnail Book Review on my own blog. I may need gentle prodding, though. I have a memory like a wossname.

Hell, I can do a few backdated posts if you like, although it's unlikely I'll be able to get the ISBN for all of the books.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't need to backdate them (plus, it makes no actual difference in a comm), but that'd be many shades of excellent.

And you can usually get ISBNs from catalogue records, but they're not strictly compulsory. The other things, though - the author is for tags and memories, and the subjects and series are for tags alone, because I'd like to keep everything accessible.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Sure. I'll do what I can- not in the next few days, though. I may be about to move to Sydney. Heh.