Bibliographies and Book Reviews

Added to types of content is one for book reviews. All logged in users can create a book review like adding a blog post or forum thread. Book Reviews are just special nodes with fields to receive book title, author name(s), publisher, etc., plus text blocks for synopsis, contents and the review itself.

Another use for this content type is bibliography citations and the main reason that I installed this module. There's a new menu item called biblio that points to the top of the hierarchy of reports and book listings. My purpose is to enter book citations once and then merely put a link in the text when I cite or quote from the book. After I enter all of the books I've quoted, visitors can look at this list and see where I get some of my crazy ideas.

Please feel free to use this for book reviews or, as I'm doing, use it to list the books that influence you. Like forum topics or threads, book reviews will not automatically post to the front page. This is because most of them will be merely bibliography information for citations in other types of posts or to let others know what you're reading. If you do write a book review, let me know so I can move it to the front page.

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