Pooled Funds to Buy and Scan Books

[otherworldlymage]

Wizardforums should make a feature or section of the forum where people can pool money to get books and then someone gets a commission for the work of scanning them. It could also be an incentive to upgrade membership.

 

[SkullTraill]

Wizardforums should make a feature or section of the forum where people can pool money to get books and then someone gets a commission for the work of scanning them. It could also be an incentive to upgrade membership.

How are we going to prevent people running away with the money once it's collected?

 

[otherworldlymage]

How are we going to prevent people running away with the money once it's collected?

The only people who could collect it and do this, would have to be you, a moderator or someone else reputable.

 

[SkullTraill]

The only people who could collect it and do this, would have to be you, a moderator or someone else reputable.

It’s a lot of work even to digitally pirate kindle books now with the new DRM and Amazon shenanigans. But could see about doing one book a month.

Scanning will probably be out of the question for time and logistic reasons.

 

[otherworldlymage]

It’s a lot of work even to digitally pirate kindle books now with the new DRM and Amazon shenanigans. But could see about doing one book a month.

Scanning will probably be out of the question for time and logistic reasons.

yeah we're talking about books that are really tough to find, but a lot of people on the forum are looking for them.

Additionally, I think it would be beneficial to introduce a bounty system for book share requests. This would allow users to incentivise others to scan and share specific books by offering a reward.

For example "This book has a $50 reward for anyone who can scan and share it."

 

[Morell]

yeah we're talking about books that are really tough to find, but a lot of people on the forum are looking for them.

Additionally, I think it would be beneficial to introduce a bounty system for book share requests. This would allow users to incentivise others to scan and share specific books by offering a reward.

For example "This book has a $50 reward for anyone who can scan and share it."

It's not worth the trouble.

There are rare books hard to find, but their value is usually only in their rarity rather than in the knowledge inside them. I call them golden bricks in shape of books. Raising in value without being worth that value. There is always another, cheaper, source that will give you same knowledge or possibly even better one. There is enough to gain from that is available for free or cheap. And you can also use the magic to attract some of the specific books if you wish to.

 

[SkullTraill]

Bounty system low key sounds more interesting. Rather than it being a chore for moderators or a risk of scam… that would make it so if someone decides the bounty is worth their time they can share the book FIRST and then get the bounty. Hmmm I’ll have a gand.