I crave for a place like that because I feel sorely tempted to ask some questions...

As a reader, I would ask (some) translators:
Why do you translate books if you cannot / will not translate them properly?

As a reader, I would ask (some) publishers:
Why do you publish crap translations?

As a reader and a translator, I would ask my beloved writers:
Why don`t you care whether books written by you are translated decently or not? Do you like your works maimed?
I must admit I do not care much if books poorly written by poor writers are translated poorly or not...

As a translator, I would ask readers:
Why don`t you demand your money back when you find out what you have bought is crap? Surely, you would do that if, say, a new pair of shoes fall apart within an hour after you have put them on?

Oh well... I suspect I know the answers to the questions. Only I`m really curious whether any of the asked would answer the questions frankly...

The one question I do not know the answer to is Is This Done On Purpose? Maiming books, I mean.

The other day, I stumbled upon a site I suppose I may recommend. It`s Goodreads; not perfect, still good enough. You can discuss books there, as long as you want to discuss a particular book and not books in general; you can browse and scroll and rate and certainly find books you have not read but might want to read; some interesting quotes to be found there, as well. And more (I haven`t explored everything, as yet; still not done with scrolling and rating "the best books ever", in fact). The list of Best Books does make one wonder, yet tastes differ, as they should, so that`s OK.

But, but... But the site, like many others of the kind, seems to be not really Reader Friendly, from my point of view. What I would dearly like is a Site where All Of Them, meaning readers and writers and translators and publishers and even illustrators perhaps, could meet and seriously discuss things and issues concerning books. I`ve been searching high and low, still I have not found a place like that. Of course, there are lots and lots of sites for readers, and for writers, and for translators... yet those are scattered and would rather compete with each other than cooperate. Which is bad for all of the above-mentioned in general, and for readers in particular.

Any Place For Them All To Meet, somewhere out there?

I wonder...