The books are posted on the website for anyone and everyone to comment on… we do encourage discussion in those Library listings, and even author comments and reader submitted reviews, but we ourselves can only do so much.

What we are doing is giving our opinion on whether we’d want to read the books that come in based on what’s been sent in. If a story’s premise doesn’t sound interesting, I’m not likely to read it… and while that may be a subjective decision, it also might be a sign that either the marketing department isn’t doing a good job, or that the book itself might not be all that good.

You might love a book that we don’t like, and conversely, we might like a book that you don’t like. None of us likes everything that someone else likes. We sometimes disagree with each other on story likes and dislikes.

Also Mike M has dyslexia, the studio isn’t as well lit as some of us would like it to be (as noted by my new need for reading glasses), and when the print on the flaps or the one-sheets is too small, mistakes can be made.

John, would you like to submit some reviews and help out?

I do enjoy your podcast on the whole, but come on guys – do your homework please.

I’m a library addict, as I can’t fund the habit…I wonder how electronic media will change the face of public libraries?

I read at about 100 pages an hour. If I’ve never read a book before, I can’t start it without finishing it in the same night, which sometimes means two or three hours of sleep between of all the damned 800 page books some people are putting out nowdays and stupidly starting a book at 11 pm….

If I’m in a “Reading” phase, I’ll do two a night. Luckily, it comes and goes- if a good video game is out, I can go weeks with just one or two re-reads from my collection.

What kind of luck is it that the only thing I do with any efficiency is something that takes money instead of makes money?

The reading journal is also a great way to keep track of your reading speed, i.e. books per month, or — more accurately if you keep work out how many words are in each book you read — words per month. I think it is fair — these days especially — to include online and audio fiction in your reading list.

On another note; the Library segment. We always hear about printed books, never about online or podcast fiction. I’d like to hear more about online books, especially considering how much Mike Stackpole is telling us all that online fiction is the new delivery system for fiction and that the purveyors of dead wood are fast becoming a thing of the past. The only hardcopy fiction I read comes from the library these days, it’s just not economically viable for me to go out to a bookstore and buy a big wedge of paper anymore.

I think it’s time we saw this change in the industry reflected in Dragon Page’s Library Segment… er, perhaps this is another comment that I should copy over to the forums…