Welcome to the BookBrowse Community Forum!

This is a special place for book lovers to share their love of reading with one another. Anyone can view, but to post you must be a member of BookBrowse.com. We’ve included some guidelines below to help community members get the most out of this forum.

This is a Respectful Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.

These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a kind, friendly place for respectful public discourse.

Your Participation Counts

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we’re sure they matter to you, too. We hope you’ll help us make this a great place for discussion by engaging thoughtfully with other participants.

We suggest you begin by discovering conversations that are already happening. Feel free to spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests. If you aren’t sure how to add to the conversation, you can always think over what you want to say and try again later.

It’s fine to disagree with someone, but please do so respectfully. Take a moment before responding if you feel overwhelmed. If you see an abusive or otherwise problematic comment, we ask that you take appropriate action (more on this below) rather than engaging.

This forum has tools that enable you to enhance what you and others get out of the forum: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting, and so forth. Please use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too. We appreciate your participation!

Always Be Thoughtful

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

  • Be thoughtful. Obviously, language that is outright offensive, abusive, or hate speech is not something we want for our community members in this space. Beyond that, we ask that you be mindful of how your language affects others, and avoid perpetuating generalizations, assumptions, and stereotypes, especially about historically marginalized people and groups. Always assume that someone of a particular identity or group you’re speaking of is present and will see your comment.
  • Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
  • Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
  • Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
  • When critiquing books, try to write as if the author will read it (they often do) – that doesn’t mean that you can’t be critical (in fact, it’s encouraged), only please do your best to frame it in a way that would benefit the author if they read it.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of a major news site.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:

  • Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
  • Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
  • Don’t post no-content replies.
  • Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
  • Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission, but you’re welcome to share links. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

We also don’t allow content that’s AI generated (or looks AI generated). If we wanted a robot’s opinion, we’d ask one!

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