Rambling Readers

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Rambling Readers is a friendly community of book lovers. You can track your reading, talk about books, write reviews, and discover what to read next.

We are a UK based instance of BookWyrm. Anyone is welcome to join and no particular genre is favoured. You can follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances and on Mastodon.

We are committed for the long term to the Bookwyrm project, to maintaining the Rambling Readers instance, and to ensuring a responsive and reliable user experience.

Where feasible we use independent small companies to provide and support our instance. This includes Mythic Beasts (Cambridge, UK) for server infrastructure, Prolateral Consulting (Luton, UK) for SMTP (email) services and Cronitor (Berkeley, USA) for server monitoring. Mythic Beasts very kindly provide us with a 25% discount on virtual server and storage fees.

If you have any questions email admin@ramblingreaders.org. Follow us on Mastodon for updates.

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Contact details

Rambling Readers
Unit 114109
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

E-mail: admin@ramblingreaders.org

Notice and takedown policy

If you are concerned that you have found material on our website, for which you have not given permission, contravenes privacy law, is obscene/defamatory and in terms of copyright law is not covered by a limitation or exception, please contact us in writing (email or letter) stating the following:

  • Your contact details.
  • The full details of the material.
  • The full URL where you found the material.
  • If the request relates to copyright, provide proof that you are the rights holder and a statement that, under penalty of perjury, you are the rights holder or are an authorised representative.
  • The reason for your request including but not limited to copyright law, privacy laws, data protection, obscenity, defamation etc.
Upon receipt of notification, the Notice and Takedown Procedure is then invoked as follows:
  1. We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint by email or letter and will make an initial assessment of the validity of the complaint.
  2. Upon receipt of a valid complaint the material will be temporarily removed from the website pending an agreed solution.
  3. We will contact the contributor who included the material, if relevant. The contributor will be notified that the material is subject to a compliant, under what allegations, and will be encouraged to assuage the complaints concerned.
  4. The complainant and the contributor will be encouraged to resolve the issue swiftly and amicably and to the satisfaction of both parties, with the following possible outcomes:
    • The material is replaced on the Rambling Readers website unchanged.
    • The material is replaced on the Rambling Readers website with changes.
    • The material is permanently removed from the Rambling Readers website.
  5. If the contributor and the complainant are unable to agree a solution, the material will remain unavailable until a time when a resolution has been reached.