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Been there, done that and I've got a stack of crappy books to prove it!  That experience was the genesis for this site so I'm glad WWEnd is helping you find the good stuff.  Thanks for the response.

Thanks for the response, splunge52!

You've come to the right place for lists.  With 12 awards and 17 best of lists there is something here for everyone.  We've got some more lists coming next year too so stay tuned.

I'm glad to hear you're getting good use out of your library.  We've got a decent library system here in Dallas and I've used the transfer service many times.  It's very convenient unless you just have to have the book right now.  Usually I've got something else I can start on if I need to wait.

It seems pretty clear that BookTrackr is the most popular WWEnd feature.  We've got a ton of new updates planned for it including some that will go out tomorrow night (if all goes well) so stay tuned for that.

Thanks for the response.

DrNefario, we meet again...

Hugo searches have brought many people to WWEnd.  The Hugo award page gets more traffic than all the other awards pages combined and then some.  It's the most recognizable of the awards and indeed even non fans have heard of it.  I peeked at your stats and you're well on your way to completing the Hugo winners.  Well done, Sir.

You mentioned your blog but you don't have a link in your profile.  Where can we find you online?

There's not much else to do with BookTrackr?  Hmmm.  I see your point but I think there are a few things you can still do.  You've tagged an impressive 315 books as read so far but you haven't tagged any books or authors as favorites.  I always like to see what people include on their favorites lists so I can compare with mine.  Also, you can certainly post some reviews   We've got over 400 so far but with 4,000 books and counting there is plenty of room for more.  Lots of WWEnd members post extracts of their reviews here and link to their blogs for the full reviews which we absolutely love!  It's a great way to leverage some old archived reviews to draw some visitors your way and we get more content for our members to enjoy.

Aside from that we have lots of upgrades for BookTrackr on the slate so there will be more you can do with it in the near future.  We have a reading challenge that's just about ready to drop which uses BookTrackr and one feature I'm desperate to get off the ground:  custom lists.  More on that, and some other features, later so stay tuned!

Thanks for the comments!

Tantara,

Fantastic!  Glad you decided to join and I'm really pleased you found us looking for female SF suthors.  It's one of our major goals to help people find new books and authors to try even if they're written by *GASP* women!

Two things really brought to my attention the derth of women authors in my reading:  The Mistressworks list and the Authors I've Read list in My World.  Ian Sales has done the genre a great service making that excellent list and championing women authors.  He's made plenty of grumpy old men like me stop and think about who we're reading and why.  Add to that the author pics in the Authors I've Read list and it just became impossible to ignore that fact that I've read far too few women.  I'm working on improving my score and the Mistressworks and Award Winning Books by Women Authors lists are a great help.

The Banned Science Fiction & Fantasy Books list is another popular list.  We showed that list at RenoVation at the WWEnd fan table and it got a lot of attention and generated some great conversations.

Thanks for the reply and the kind words about WWEnd.  I'm happy to hear you'll be getting more involved with the forums and the reading challenge.  We've had a number of members really step up and contribute in the forums and the blog and it's made the site much more interesting for everyone.  The GMRC is a bit of an experiment.  I hope folks will take to it and help us improve it as we go along.

Cheers!

Welcome to WWEnd, Engelbrecht!  However you found us I'm glad you did.

The lists are one of our best features and I see that you've gone to town with BookTrackr!  I saw you sign up the other day and tag a bunch of books.  I came back a few hours later and peeked at your stats and was blown away.  We've been watching your progress and were wondering if you'd ever stop.  I can tell you that you're by far the best read member we've got.  Truly impressive.

You are very close to completing a bunch of the lists and it sounds like you're already using the stats to help you find the ones you're missing.  That's pretty much exactly what BookTrackr is for.

Please do jump right in and mix it up.  We've got some great people from all over the world in our little community and we're alway eager to meet new folks.  Be sure to check out the Grand Master Reading Challenge too.  That's where all the action is right now.  We're getting tons of participation and many great reviews already.

Thanks for the complimant about WWEnd.  It's a labor of love and we feed off of the great ideas and input from our members so don't hesitate if you have any questions or comments.  There are lots of forum threads for member feedback.

Thanks for the response, iftyzaidi.

The lists are a big attraction and the SF Masterworks is probably the most popular of them all.  It really is a great list.  We just added a bunch of new ones to the list a few weeks back.  Gollancz releases them with no fanfare it seems.  I just stumbled on one of the new ones and I thought I'd look and see if there were any more.  Found 8 more that way.  I wonder how the folks who've tagged them all as read feel when suddenly they're 9 short again?  I think the new Dangerous Visions cover is fantastic!  That's one I'll buy for the cover alone.

I'm really pleased that you enjoy the forums too.  You have to have a lot of members to support any real conversations and we're starting to get to that point now which is really great.  I've met a ton of great people through the forums from all over the world - South Africa, Farnce, Poland, Cayman Islands, other US states etc. and even a guy who lives just a couple miles from me here in Dallas.  Too cool.

Glad you found your way here and we really appreciate the kind words about WWEnd - they help fuel our enthusiasm!