Many of you are aware of my startup company, Flustard, and the student-powered textbook database called the Bookbase (add your textbook). We have another feature we are considering of incorporating. We need your feedback on whether it is a useful and worthwhile addition.

Textbook reviews. Amazon has them in the thousands, but they do nothing in helping you decide whether they are of use for the class you are taking. They have no context other than whether it was good or bad. They don't tell you how helpful they were for a specific class with a specific professor. Contextual textbook reviews aims to fix that.

The idea is to enable students to review textbooks they own (and listed in the Bookbase) based on the specific class they have used it in. Some classes may be run differently by other professors, some material may be emphasized more than others. Was the book even used at all?

You can critique your textbook on these parameters and more.

What are your thoughts on this feature?

What review information is most important for reviews of this nature?

Vote and paw!