Thanks to The Slashdot Effect and the need for an online database of books to go alongside imdb.com and allmusic.com, the Internet Book List is set to be a hugely popular website. Unfortunately, the Slashdot linkage has meant that most of the books added to the database so far reflect the reading habits of the Slashdot demographic; there’s plenty of Science Fiction and Fantasy on there and little else. Hopefully, the balance of genres will even itself out in time; in fact it will have to if this is going to be a valuable resource of book information.