The new Reviews section is a great idea. I'm really glad to be able to see what others have to say about books that I've been considering, as well as those books that I already own. It should prove to be a useful resource in assisting people of all ability levels in finding books specific to their needs.

The section might be improved upon in a couple of ways. First, it seems that the sight should follow standard convention in that book titles starting with "The", "A", and other throw-away words should have those words moved to the end of the title, delimeted by a comma.

In other words: 

The Perl Cookbook

[download]

should become: 

Perl Cookbook, The

[download]

As it stands now, people searching the list for The Perl Cookbook have to look for it under "T" instead of "P", where it would be found in any other book registry.

Other issues I see are that the book's author should appear next to the title, to help differentiate between various books of similar title. And reviewers should probably be asked to include the edition number as part of the title, or the site should append the edition number automatically based on reviewers inputting it in the review form.

Thanks for starting up this new section!

Dave

"If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

In reply to Display of book titles in the Reviews section. by davido

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