Opinions On Adding Another World

[The Wise Man]

Bookworld is in the lead.

[N£MO]

I'm going to vote for another world,anything thats p2p related that the other worlds dont cover.

Bookworld would be a good idea but don't know whether it would have that many visitors or posters.

How about another world BUT with a big sub section for books....sort of like in the lounge and filesharing that we have here already.

[N£MO]

Originally posted by The Wise Man@20 April 2003 - 18:35
Bookworld is in the lead.

Hardly surprising with all these people who have more than one log in name to vote with.

[The Wise Man]

Originally posted by N£MO+20 April 2003 - 18:58--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (N£MO @ 20 April 2003 - 18:58)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--The Wise Man@20 April 2003 - 18:35
Bookworld is in the lead.

Hardly surprising with all these people who have more than one log in name to vote with. [/b][/quote]
Oh yeah, I&#39;m voting with a dead name. Seriously, I haven&#39;t thought of that, but I won&#39;t.

[MusicWorld]

I voted for bookworld because somebody said there could be discussions that have to do with comics.Use to love Comics when I was younger and still enjoy a good book every now and then.

[Jibbler]

Yeah, I&#39;m all for posting comicbook scans. The Artist Formerly Known As Funky Capricorn has graced us again&#33; Personally, if there is a bookworld, it should be open to any kind of print media.

I&#39;d rather have a forum where we can post our Supernodes instead. This sure would get the files spread around faster.

[MagicNakor]

Well, I think most people (or at least the ones that are interested) have seen my semi-essay about why we need a Bookworld. If not, and you want to, check here.

Other people have asked if audiobooks would be "accepted" in Bookworld. Yes. Of course. I&#39;ve had a few from time to time myself, although a most unfortunate computer-generated voice forced me to get rid of them. I remember someone saying that books are for reading, not listening to. However, the reason that audiobooks came about was as an alternative for the blind to enjoy books. Translating works into braille is costly and time-consuming. Of course, audiobooks caught on and eventually more people used them. There&#39;s also the different-yet-similar matter of radio-plays, which are very enjoyable. Perhaps they could be called the first audiobooks.

Now I see people saying about comics. I know a lot of people have them. I don&#39;t. But what I have or don&#39;t have shouldn&#39;t be the be all and end all. I&#39;ve really never been interested in comics, after X-Men started deteriorating. But, most certainly, comics would have a place in Bookworld too. They are "comic books" after all.

The one thing that I believe doesn&#39;t have a place in Bookworld is pornography. I don&#39;t care if anyone disagrees with me (and I&#39;m sure a lot of you will), but there it is. First and foremost, pornography isn&#39;t difficult to find. On Kazaa, you can stumble across it by accident. On the internet, you can stumble across it by accident. I can think of a number of searches that brought up pornography on Google, at least. The most "interesting" one of these would be my search for "network systems admin" and landed me on a Russian male mail-order bride page. Maybe one of them was a network admin, I don&#39;t know.

Anyhow, I&#39;m sure it was no suprise to anyone what I just said. I&#39;ve been saying it for a while now.

[Jibbler]

Originally posted by MagicNakor@20 April 2003 - 17:56
The most "interesting" one of these would be my search for "network systems admin" and landed me on a Russian male mail-order bride page.

Can you send me a link to that page? B)

[MagicNakor]

I wasn&#39;t in the market for a male Russian mail-order bride. You could try the search, see if it comes up. It was the third link down on Google when I did it. This would&#39;ve been about two years ago, though.


I was scarred for life.

[J'Pol]

In direct response to MN&#39;s last post, particularly with regard to audiobooks / radio.

Most people read Shakespeare&#39;s plays. However they were written as plays, i.e to be watched and experienced. They were not intended to be read. As such I would argue that to watch the movie of Richard III with Olivier is truer to the original experience than to read the book.

To each his own.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour&#39;d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang&#39;d to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visag&#39;d war hath smooth&#39;d his wrinkled front,
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady&#39;s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I-that am not shap&#39;d for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass-
I-that am rudely stamp&#39;d, and want love&#39;s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph-
I-that am curtail&#39;d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform&#39;d, unfinish&#39;d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them-
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity.
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the King
In deadly hate the one against the other;
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew&#39;d up-
About a prophecy which says that G
Of Edward&#39;s heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.

Historically Richard was not deformed. However it was written that way because Shakespeare had no option. The winner writes the history.

Point is, as long as people enjoy the work, then let&#39;s just agree that&#39;s a good thing. Whatever the medium.