I can’t remember how I first came upon this site a few months ago, but it’s one of about ten regular sites I visit each day. I’m usually surprised by the number of actual reviews put up each day. One or two new reviews a day would be a lot, but you usually have even more.

As far as the quick capsule reviews, I have no problem with them. Like someone said earlier, they’re a good way to see if something might interest you and follow the link to Amazon to read more about that book. It kind of reminds me of the magazine Talebones, which I haven’t read in a while, but it used to have a capsule review section near the back which must have listed two dozen books, many of which I ended up checking out at Amazon.

I’m not into the thrillers and spy novels at all, but there are so many other reviews of horror, sci-fi, etc. that I can simply ignore the reviews for the spy novels and never feel like I’m missing out on anything.

I like the layout and the easy links to Amazon. Truthfully, I don’t think I ever even noticed the ads on the right side of the page until now (and yes, there actually is a pill ad up there now). The contests, too, are something I never really paid attention to before, but I can’t think of any other site that gives away so much as regularly as this one.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a few more features that aren’t reviews — interviews with authors and , just thinking aloud here, maybe even readers. Or professional reviewers. There’s a column at McSweeneys called Dispatches from A Public Librarian, detailing a librarian’s strange experiences with library users. Something like that, written by, say, a bookstore employee or such, might be interesting. I’m sure there are other features that might be interesting on a semi-regular basis, and no, that’s not subtle hint about anything.

So, on the whole, I enjoy coming to the site every day. Some days it’s a half-minute visit, other days it’s long enough to read two or three full reviews. It’s my favorite review site, ahead of SFsite.com, which would be my second favorite.

Third place would be porn. Lots and lots of porn.

Although the longer reviews are informative and entertaining, I prefer the quick ones. Just wet my whistle with a brief description and if it grabs my interest the author’s or publisher’s website is just a click away for anything more in-depth. Quantity is quality as far as I’m concerned. I also like the mix of new and old books. I’m lucky to have a really good used bookstore in my neighborhood and very much enjoy getting hipped to all the old stuff that I can pick up cheap. I read a lot and it can get rather expensive. This site has exposed me to so much new stuff that it looks like I’d enjoy that I’ve had to start keeping a list to help me remember.

This is my first comment but I now have the feeling it will be far from my last.

Thanks to all involved.

As for what doesn’t work, since I use the RSS feed to scan the topics and summaries before clicking to the site, it would help if you break up your articles so that I can tell what books or topics will be covered in an article. I hate to think there were books you covered that I never noticed because they were buried deep in the content and did not appear in the RSS or on your main page.