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Show HN: Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments

69 points by truffle_pig 9y ago

notheguyouthink 9y ago
As an aside, on this topic - are there any amazing books that grow your mind / life (power of habit, learning new things, whatever you think fits my sentence) in audiobook form? I've been wanting to use my commute time for personal growth, but a lot of books don't lend themselves to audiobook forms. Thoughts?
- Multicomp 9y ago
  Right behind you. If I'm going to burn 45 minutes a day, at least I could be listening to something that will up my knowledge.
  - ideonode 9y ago
    For 45 minutes a day, I'd recommend the BBC In Our Time podcast, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each week, academics talk about a particular topic from the world of science, history, philosophy etc. It's unashamedly high-brow. There's a huge back catalogue as well.
    - bberrry 9y ago
      Thanks, looks great!
    - nestorherre 9y ago
      Looks good. Listening to it right now
- csjr 9y ago
  Have you tried Audible? https://www.audible.com https://www.audible.com
- internetman55 9y ago
  Bible
mipmap04 9y ago
This is cool - I think it might be more compelling if you created some sort of infographic or analysis on top of this data that pulls the user in a bit. What list did you use for book recognition? Are you only doing exact matches?
app4soft 9y ago
Latest XKCD[1] looks like related [1] http://xkcd.com/1909 http://xkcd.com/1909
nestorherre 9y ago
OP, if you are the developer of the page, can you make it that users can select the number of books to be displayed on each topic? That would be pretty useful.
- truffle_pig 9y ago
  Hey yep I'm the developer. What's your use case for this feature? Is it just overwhelming with too many books?
  - nestorherre 9y ago
    Actually the opposite lol. I'd like to get more books, for instance, on a certain topic, since I'm an avid reader and would like to get the most out of this tool. For instance, people interested ONLY in startups, don't care about the other categories, but STARTUPS, so getting the top, let's say 50 books on startups would be their use case.
  - crackered 9y ago
    Additional feature request: update the URL for each category so that I can easily share a particular list (e.g., https://redditfavorites.com/drawing https://redditfavorites.com/drawing). Thanks!
bertomartin 9y ago
Nice idea. Remove the React favicon ;)
czue 9y ago
Cool site! Reminds me a lot of https://thingsonreddit.com/ https://thingsonreddit.com/ which was also shared here recently. What is your formula for popularity score?

69 points by truffle_pig 9y ago

As an aside, on this topic - are there any amazing books that grow your mind / life (power of habit, learning new things, whatever you think fits my sentence) in audiobook form? I've been wanting to use my commute time for personal growth, but a lot of books don't lend themselves to audiobook forms. Thoughts?

Multicomp 9y ago
Right behind you. If I'm going to burn 45 minutes a day, at least I could be listening to something that will up my knowledge.
- ideonode 9y ago
  For 45 minutes a day, I'd recommend the BBC In Our Time podcast, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each week, academics talk about a particular topic from the world of science, history, philosophy etc. It's unashamedly high-brow. There's a huge back catalogue as well.
  - bberrry 9y ago
    Thanks, looks great!
  - nestorherre 9y ago
    Looks good. Listening to it right now
csjr 9y ago
Have you tried Audible? https://www.audible.com https://www.audible.com
internetman55 9y ago
Bible

mipmap04 9y ago

This is cool - I think it might be more compelling if you created some sort of infographic or analysis on top of this data that pulls the user in a bit. What list did you use for book recognition? Are you only doing exact matches?

app4soft 9y ago

Latest XKCD[1] looks like related [1] http://xkcd.com/1909 http://xkcd.com/1909

nestorherre 9y ago

OP, if you are the developer of the page, can you make it that users can select the number of books to be displayed on each topic? That would be pretty useful.

truffle_pig 9y ago
Hey yep I'm the developer. What's your use case for this feature? Is it just overwhelming with too many books?
- nestorherre 9y ago
  Actually the opposite lol. I'd like to get more books, for instance, on a certain topic, since I'm an avid reader and would like to get the most out of this tool. For instance, people interested ONLY in startups, don't care about the other categories, but STARTUPS, so getting the top, let's say 50 books on startups would be their use case.
- crackered 9y ago
  Additional feature request: update the URL for each category so that I can easily share a particular list (e.g., https://redditfavorites.com/drawing https://redditfavorites.com/drawing). Thanks!

bertomartin 9y ago

Nice idea. Remove the React favicon ;)

czue 9y ago

Cool site! Reminds me a lot of https://thingsonreddit.com/ https://thingsonreddit.com/ which was also shared here recently. What is your formula for popularity score?