weblog review

Here is the review I’ve got con­ducted a while ago. I wanted to know how my site was received by the pub­lic and added my site to be reviewed at The Weblog Review.

Here is what my reviewer Wendy said about my site:
(my site was then still called EB from day to day)

EB from day to day

A book review blog is kind of a hard weblog to review when you’re fail­ing mis­er­ably at read­ing even just two books a month – like me. I like review­ing this type of site, though, because it gives me some more ideas of books to add to the ol’ Ama­zon Wish List, and for a not-so-avid reader, that’s def­i­nitely a plus.

I loved that when this site loaded, it was a very sim­ple lay­out and very easy for me to find my way around. The archives were sorted by date or by cat­e­gory, includ­ing type of book. There are two side columns sur­round­ing the main con­tent, with both columns list­ing a plethora of infor­ma­tion. One of my favorite addi­tions is the bit on the side­bar that shows the book that’s cur­rently in process.

EB is the author of the weblog and has one of the best and straight for­ward about sec­tions I’ve ever read: “I’m not here (on the inter­net) to bore you with my per­sonal life, or to give you my full life story. I am doing this, because I love lit­er­a­ture & (to read) books and write about books and it is nice to give rec­om­men­da­tions and/or reviews for other booklovers to read. I don’t pre­tend to be objec­tive or only write a blurb (I don’t write for a pub­lisher or paper etc.), but what I will give you is my hum­ble but hon­est opin­ion.” Perfect!

The first thing I noticed with each post were the added extras to the post. For instance, the lat­est review done on Octo­ber 16th, has lists the num­ber of words in the post, the num­ber of images (if any), and the esti­mated read­ing time. It’s all listed very unob­tru­sively, and is some­thing I haven’t seen before.

The reviews are done in a short, but infor­ma­tive man­ner. They don’t spoil the end­ings of any books, but still man­age to give poten­tial read­ers enough knowl­edge to know whether or not it’s some­thing they might enjoy. Inside each review is a link to the Ama­zon page where you can buy the book, and there’s also a link the author’s cre­ated sug­gest­ing if you like the review, to con­sider buy­ing EB a cof­fee. It’s a sub­tle way of ask­ing for dona­tions, and it’s prob­a­bly one of the least tacky ones I’ve ever seen.

Over­all, I’m a fan of this book review blog. If I were a more diehard reader, I’d absolutely be apt to check back now and again for new recommendations.

This site was reviewed on 2007-11-06 by Wendy.
They felt this site belonged in the Per­sonal cat­e­gory.
Wendy felt that EB from day to day deserved a rat­ing of 4.25.

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