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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1325666" data-attributes="member: 1465">About the Top20: I only own the Manual of the Planes and the Legions of Hell, two books I really like although they make me use them very sparingly exactly because I am afraid of "spoiling" them  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I have also seen and read some parts of Madness in Freeport - nice adventure series which we have played, but nothing legendary - and Book of the Righteous, which I probably should read better because it seemed only average to me.I am sure that ALL of us are willing to say a few words on the book we have but very few want to write down a FULL review.I can say this about myself, but I think it applies to many of us... I really like writing reviews, and I did so for music albums in a local intranet site with friends, but I have never wrote a single one in ENWorld. One reason is [shameless] because I think that the official reviewers are so good that I feel my review would suck in comparison[/shameless]. I don't want to write an incomplete or approximate review if I do so. Also I don't have time to playtest a book throughout, but this should be one of the most significant support to a review's value. The consequence is: rather than writing a low-profile review, I don't write it at all.On the other hand, I have quite a precise idea about every book I own, and about many others I often have the chance to borrow from collecting friends, and my overall opinion could at least increase the amount of marks for more statistic value.I understand that it's not simple, but I would like ENWorld to give different space for FULL and QUICK revisions separately. It would be nice if we could just enter our VOTE with a couple-lines comment (or even without - it could even be just a simple poll), just as it is done by IMDB for movies. I still think that the full reviews are the MOST informative, but since it's hard to write them well, a few people do compared to how many of us own each book, and this results in fewer marks which means a LESS informative average.In conclusion, the TOP would be to add a simple poll to each book so that who knows the book but doesn't want to write a thesis about it could still post a mark. The reader who wants a public opinion on a book reads the poll average (like browsing IMDB for a movie), while the one who wants an expert's deeper analysis reads the full reviews (like browsing ALLMOVIE).</blockquote>

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