Since I have been mentioned and you seem to be looking for review feedback, I have a few points that may or may not make a difference in the way others regard them.
Forty-three years ago I was slammed hard by a headmaster/classical scholar in using a template for a book review. In junior high, it was a template I had received A+ regard and grades for. Templates can be useful but I would rather read reviews that use them as an overall guideline instead of a writing style and structure that becomes pretty impersonal and stale to this old reader.
Within the current structure you are using Marc are a couple of things that are a turn off to me. The oversize text for a "category" of discussion is distracting and really lends nothing to me but an ostentatious presentation of LOUD. Simple underlined header of regular texts would work just fine. Another often included for the pleasure of one site will mean absolutely nothing to another (such as rugs and hot tubs) that while may seem personable, drag down what can be coherent discussion in earnest.
Keep in mind that while I copy most serious reviews presented at SFI to the designated review archive there but quite honestly skim them while omitting a bulk of a review for my own filtering purposes. Some of what I skim past are five photos when one would do. That has more to do with my own tastes than the WOW factor that is popular amongst some. It is also (in part) that I am still a prehistoric dial-up user that still knows how much bandwidth is getting squandered for what could be much quicker loads and indeed loads everyone ends up paying for. There is economy available at any level of browsing. While they are not say, 20 8mb pictures; even 20 350kb pictures adds up to what? (real quick here) 7mb. Nothing for most high speed browsers but it all adds up and for me, rarely worth loading them all when many fewer glamor shots can still offer a comprehensive review (as with myArmoury for a for instance).
High resolution pictures are a great thing but could also be offered as small quick loading thumbs and galleries. The reviews themselves I imagine you must squirrel away somewhere and some others do this for their own references. Russ Ellis (Triton/Tritonworks) does a brief overview for many and they may seem short and lacking but a middle ground (such as the myArmoury general guidelines) are quite sufficient with then general discussions about a given piece and perhaps the dozens of glamor shots and chat.
So anyway, in response to would folk here enjoy them? I imagine those that don't see them elsewhere will be appreciative and those that have seen them need not to even open them aside from rebuttal or observations.
I don't catch many outside of SFI and those done by others at SBG (by and large) but am pointed to an occasional Dave Kelly review of early modern stuff. The myArmoury format is much easier reading and viewing than what becomes tedious to pick out the particulars of a given item. Bear in mind that almost all I see have no real interest to me in terms of my own collecting.
Carry on, I check in here and Levine's section a few times a week.
Cheers
GC
