/lit/ - Literature

If you do end up doing this OP, assuming it doesn't burn out into a two person echochamber within a couple months like most imageboards, just remember that the medium and structure ends up determining the overall message and character of the site. There are imageboards in every language and they're all pretty much the same. If you just make a literature themed 4chan, thats exactly what you'll get- with less users and more moderation/drama to boot. It would be better to make something similar but novel enough that it won't be burdened with 4chan's reputation and problems.

Some people ITT have suggested replacing image uploading with pdf/txt uploading instead, I think that's a really good idea. It would give the catalog the impression of a digital library, with several pages of pdf files and discussion beneath- it would also have a cleaner textboard feel, as opposed to the deluge of porn and visual racism that gets spammed here every day.

A textboard requiring a pdf upload of a book in order to start a thread could probably have a wide appeal. You could even get rid of the comment box in the OP which would filter clickbait and multiple threads on the same book. I wouldn't worry about making .onion sites or having users mine bitcoins for you, just do something clean and functional. 4chan worked fine for years without capatcha, just understand what niche you want to fill and keep things simple.