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[Anne]

1. Librarian Manual contents update

Manual says "dust jacket", unfortunately much currently are empty fluff or propaganda. A "generic summary .. NO personal feelings .. reviews .. spoilers" is good. Suggest at top "NO opinions, reviews, or spoilers", follow with more detailed directions in point form.

* No spoilers.
* Objective - NO opinions, reviews.
* Setting (time, place), cast, plot. aka
* When, where, who, what. (No why, because motivation or theme can be subjective/ spoiler.)
* Good/Fine to end on teaser/question? (Many romances and mysteries do.)
* For books with more than one story, list titles, maybe 2-3 lines (200 letters) overall, capsule one-liners (100 char) for each? (line/letter guesstimate)
* Length (What is present # letters? ~400?).

2. Normal and expansion?

Make most fit in normal size (~400 letters?) without ".. more" expansion. Normal current size is enough for most books, without ".. more".

Base on # pages, # volumes in book?
Could system check? relate to # lines? 400 letters per volume or per 400 pages? Rough estimate guess example only, suggest proper analysis for accurate correlation. I review multi-volume books (3-5 books in one), others have 10-90 short stories in one, 100 lines may be enough tops?

Could limit by # letters, since present review limit is 20K characters. I started blog just because GR auto-post does not work for me, and reviews went over 20K letters http://aneyespy.blogspot.ca/2012/03/f..., http://aneyespy.blogspot.ca/2013/01/g...).

Can suggest and/or limit # words (by 5-letter standard or space between) and/or # letters. Word and letter counters are on internet. Wiki Manual specifies # words and # paragraphs - vague, paragraph standard 3+ sentences, lengths also vary; computer screen size varies too. Check for Large-Print. Consider # pictures.

? Comments, suggestions ?

GR is expanding so time to plan ahead.
Measure twice, cut once.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Moved to the correct folder for this kind of discussion.