ReadOps: A virtual book club for people interested in Ops

readops.com

13 points·bscofield··8 comments

Ops can mean a lot of things...

IT operations? Business operations? Military operations?

There's zero content on the site you submitted. I'm guessing it's yours, because I can't imagine why anyone would submit a nearly blank site.

Below is a link to the Google Group, also zero content unless you join. Why would I join a random Google Group that I have no idea what it displays or who else has joined it?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/readops

Edit: Additional content was added and the group was made public. IT ops.

Sorry -- we're still setting up, so things are a bit muddled. I've moved the welcome message onto the homepage and made the discussions public, so you should be able to get a better idea of what's going on now. Thanks for the feedback!

You could have taken the opportunity to give us some info about the group when you commented.

EDIT - The welcome screen is still useless as I had to "click" another link to get an idea what the group was about...

Pet peeve of mine... Linking to the Kindle version when a hard copy version is available.

The site is much more informative now. Thanks.

Well, if I understand it correctly the idea is awesome and I wish it existed for other topics as well. Seems like it would be a great addition to a big providers book catalog like kindle or google books, audible etc.

But as others have said, it could really use more details on the home page.

Interesting concept, I'd love to see the same thing for developers as long as the book choice is pertinent (not someone just trying to get Amazon credits).

tl;dr: Well, nothing: One must join to view. Why I should I join? What is there to view? I'll never know unless I join, catch-22.

(Should I add FU?)

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