Choosing a Book

Suppose you wish to choose a book to read. There are lots of reasons it might help to have the opinions of others. Perhaps you are in a book club, and you want people to be excited about the next book, so that even the lazy people read it! Or you have some book ideas, but you want better ones. Or you want your friends to name their favorites so you can share their experiences.

You could email people, but it can be hard to get an overall direction from a bunch of text replies. You could ask for numeric ratings, but people are more likely to do it if it's easy. Even if you get the ratings, you have to use a spreadsheet (or if you're ambitious, paper!) to calculate results.

Using Thinkmeter, you can create a meter and add a few options in a minute or two and send out a link (no login necessary). Your friends follow the link and can rate and give comments (no login necessary). Here's what a friend would see:

If you put an Amazon link in an option, Thinkmeter grabs some details like Amazon ratings, summary, and a link for more details, so people can evaluate further if need be. (We know one fellow who refuses to offer opinions until reading Amazon reviews!)

Using Thinkmeter is quick, fun, and helps you make a better decision.

For more information on how Thinkmeter summarizes the results, take the tour, or try it now.