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Maybe it would be valuable to have an anonymous "onboarding" experience where people choose the genres they like or dislike, and then the people choosing the book can be informed a summary of the groups preferences.

Also an anonymous thumbs up/down after the book is read could help the group choose a better next book

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Such a cool idea! I'm definitely going to explore this feature for the upcoming release.

This is a book club. People know each other and their preferences. Also, it would be rather clear if people liked the book or not. Those are functions better left to the conversation or at least, no sense in making them anonymous.

For online discussions, it might be convenient to have a shared board with questions about the book, maybe scoreboard to rate by aspects and do a final grate, but those are fancies, not essential for facilitating the discussion.

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