What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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message 1: by Lindsay (new)

Lindsay | 8 comments It probably isn't the right place, and I don't know the answer, but it's such a good idea!


message 2: by SamSpayedPI (new)

SamSpayedPI | 2305 comments I'd think the topic would belong in "Just to Chat." A moderator can move it for you if you can't do it yourself (you need to be working from the desktop version, not the app).

I don't know of any such sites. It would seem to me that no one site would be able to look at all of those sources and rate them accurately. That said, I can't find even more esoteric ones . I think the issue could be that textbooks etc. are instantly outdated; by the time they're published, a new edition is being written. So by the time raters finish tearing apart edition 4, edition 7 is ready for print, so no one reads the review since it's not on the edition they are assigned.

Also, there are a gazillion different texts being used across the country; every college professor has written one to sell to his class. There just isn't the same national market. Political sites analyze one speech (Trump's first SOTU address was 11 pages, printed out, for comparison purposes) for an (potential) audience of a couple hundred million; each textbook has an audience of a few hundred, or a few thousand tops.


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