Do we want to be a site for academic experts?
This may require that the overall level of discussion on the main site be academic focused. I personally don't think we're ready to do so.
It's not necessarily an easy task, since true academic discussion doesn't just mean that all avid book readers can engage in such levels of discussion.
Do we want to be a site for literature enthusiasts, then?
enthusiast:
a person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.
Perhaps we may wish to be so, as long as we recognize the fact that not all enthusiasts are academics, and that answers may not always be perfect.
But what about people who occasionally read books once in a while and wish to ask a question about a certain book?
So then, are we a site simply for people who read books, any and all of them? Clearly not, since not all books may fit the theme of the site. For example, you wouldn't ask a programming question on here simply because you read it from a book, a programming book in this case.
So what kind of site do we wish to be, then? I'm not sure, the answer seems to be more complex than it seems to be at first.
