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

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.

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

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Post by sfbook » Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 4:20 PM UTC

kinix wrote: post #5

pyuser583 wrote: post #2

Thank you for the shout out!

Assuming you're involved in the site: more than welcome! It's my favourite resource for finding books to read!

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 :)

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

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Post by sfbook » Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 4:21 PM UTC

Agrue8u wrote: post #4

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

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

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

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Post by sfbook » Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 4:24 PM UTC

pyuser583 wrote: post #2

Thank you for the shout out!

Shout out? You involved in SFBook.com?

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

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Post by sfbook » Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

xtiansimon wrote: post #6

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…

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?