Official Rating System for Calico Reaction

[calico_reaction]

After two and a half years, I've finally broken down and created a rating system. But not just any rating system. Oh no. You won't find any stars, grades, or number scales in this blog. Such ratings are far to concrete in my mind, and they're too easy to write off in that you see the review and don't stop to wonder why the reviewer rated the book

Comments

[spiderweb888]

Excellent system and pretty much how I rate my books. Except I break "Worth the Cash" into PB and HB 'cause some books are worth $8 but not $25. But if it's worth $25, I guess it goes on the "must have" or "keeper shelf" category. Hmmm... must think on it more.

I enjoy your reviews. Thanks for doing them!

[zhai]

I like it. :) Very pragmatic.

[acidroses]

Hello... I love your reviews and have been lurking for awhile so hopefully it's ok that I'm friending you now. :)

This is a pretty good system... for me, I only ever buy books if I love them to death, so everything up from Worth the Cash is one group for me.

[calico_reaction]

Perfectly fine, and thanks for commenting! :)

[shanra]

Hello. ^-^ I stumbled across your reviews and liked them, although I'll likely continue to be more of a lurker than a comment-leaving person, but 'tis always polite to introduce yourself. ^-^

Also wanted to say that that sounds like a wonderful rating system to use and it's made me think about the one I use, why and whether I can't do anything more with it myself. ^-^

[calico_reaction]

Hi, and welcome!

Thanks for your comment. :) What's the system you use?

[shanra]

Thank you. ^-^

I have a slight aversion to the empty ratings column on LibraryThing, so I wound up just adopting their star system. This post made me realise that I could do so much more with a rating system if I took the time to sit down and assign values to them. Likely won't start sorting things out until the summer vacation, though, for fear of getting twitchy and redoing all the entries to conform to the new standard. I'd like to have my thesis and exams behind me first.

[calico_reaction]

I use the star system on LT too, but I don't take my own values seriously. :)

[ext_86475]

I love your rating system. It's much more meaningful than numbers.

[calico_reaction]

Thanks! That's what I was going for. :) I see number systems and think, "Okay, but what's that number mean compared to the rest of the scale?" It means nothing, to me anyway.