"To read is to engage in an act of imaginative personalization..." Ripped right from the Chicago Tribune article, it's a thought which illustrates why I don't look at book trailers. My own imagination is all I need. Of course, I rarely watch movies and fall asleep in the theatre but I can stay up all night reading, so while book trailers don't work for me, they probably do work for the legion of folks who don't view books and tv/movies as mutually exclusive. If a trailer piques the interest of a viewer who then picks up the book, I say hooray!  Sort of a lid for every pot kind of thing. Besides, didn't we used to do something similar at BCPL?  We had booktalks, or subject talks, with BCPL staff on our webpage. I don't view Reader's Advisory as a one size fits all scenario--we have all kinds of tools at our disposal, and book trailers can be a useful addition in the right scenario.

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In summary, I enjoyed working through this training, but several of the assignments took me more than two hours to complete...and I considered myself already decently versed with RA tools. My favorite assignment was #8 which will prompt me to augment RA fiction encounters with  non-fiction choices when appropriate; I especially liked thinking about appeal factors from a non-fiction angle. The Goodreads assignment was both fun and educational---already a sporadic Goodreads user, I was pleasantly surprised by the tips  I picked up during this assignment and have used Listopia as a resource for suggestions.