What are other good book review sites?
I maintain a separate page of book review sites and sources. • What’s with the layout? Why are there no images? I design web sites to communicate as effectively as possible, not to look glitzy, and on a site like this text is much more important than images. The complete omission of images was an accident originally, but is now deliberate – a demonstration that an effective image-free site is possible. If you have any suggestions for improving the usability or effectiveness of this site, please let me know. My reviews were distributed by ftp and email before they were ever available on the web and the email versions are still the “base”, with the web versions and indices generated from them by Python scripts. (These are pretty ugly and have lots of stuff hard-coded, but if you want it I will send you the source code; I am an ardent free software advocate.) The key to this is the the machine-readable bibliographic information at the end of each review, in slightly modified “refer” forma
