Book reviews?

^ Cool news, M@X!  We'll see if any of our ideas will take shape in a future incarnation of PA. 

On a side note, I believe the site should start listing stuff like interviews and book reviews away from the forums. As much as I like hanging around here, we need to be a bit more systematic with reference material, and make it available to people who are not necessarily interested in visiting the forums.

^ Obviously it would only be music-specific books. I don't think a book about John Lennon treating his first wife and child like crap is worthy of adding to the Beatles page, for instance, but the books written about the studio sessions and the band's musical career would.

seventhsojourn wrote: JLocke wrote: Moogtron III wrote: I think it's a very good idea. I like it a lot to read about my favorite artists. About prog artists there are a lot of interesting books written. There are quite some book reviews on this site, but it sounds like a good idea if they got their own section. Well see, that's my main point. Searching the forums for unorganized book reviews isn't nearly as practical or use-friendly as including book reviews on the site itself. And like I said earlier, not all fans of this site go to the forums, so they miss out on the book mentions completely.  This would be a good way to properly present the book reviews for all to see.   Yes, great idea.   I think you make an important point about visitors to the site. Before i joined in December 2009, I never looked at the forums.

Finnforest wrote: My only concern is page loading.  With the biggies, like Beatles, Sabb, etc....the pages are already getting slow due to all of the singles and dubious DVDs people add to their artist pages.  I hate the clutter.  Think how many books there would be for the Beatles!!  It all goes back to the question I asked long ago, if Max could set up these other sections (like singles, books, dvds, etc), so that they don't appear until you click the leaf/link to open that section, then it would be AWESOME as the official studio albums and live albums would quickly open.  But if they are set up just like another section on the main page the speed thing is a concern for people with slow internet.  Aside from that issue, I love the idea.  So the question is, can books truly have a separate section that won't auto-load on the artist page unless you click on it?

Edited by JLocke - February 27 2010 at 16:27

My only concern is page loading.  With the biggies, like Beatles, Sabb, etc....the pages are already getting slow due to all of the singles and dubious DVDs people add to their artist pages.  I hate the clutter.  Think how many books there would be for the Beatles!! 

It all goes back to the question I asked long ago, if Max could set up these other sections (like singles, books, dvds, etc), so that they don't appear until you click the leaf/link to open that section, then it would be AWESOME as the official studio albums and live albums would quickly open.  But if they are set up just like another section on the main page the speed thing is a concern for people with slow internet. 

Aside from that issue, I love the idea.  So the question is, can books truly have a separate section that won't auto-load on the artist page unless you click on it?

^ See, I would LOVE to find out people's opinions of books like that, but would rather not have to scour the internet in order to learn about them. If it would all be in the same place, I could discover so much more prog writings so much faster. 

SaltyJon wrote: There are even books on various artists, like the Krautrock books.

Edited by JLocke - February 27 2010 at 15:47

There are even books on various artists, like the Krautrock books.

I know there are books on other bands too, such as Magma, but I wouldn't be able to read/review it as it's in French.  Still, good idea.