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Thank you! I subscribe to the Nature email newsletter and really like the book reviews they've revived relatively recently. Last week I stumbled upon the Scienc

Thank you! I subscribe to the Nature email newsletter and really like the book reviews they've revived relatively recently. Last week I stumbled upon the Science book review blog and thought it would be amazing if more journals did this type of general interest book reviews, and if these reviews could be aggregated for easy browsing. There are plenty of outlets for reviews of literary nonfiction, but not so much for popsci-type books in my experience. I started with those two sites, then found the LSE one and reviews.ac.uk (a history book review site which I have yet to include). IEEE spectrum also has a book review section but it's very sparse, so I didn't bother.

mathnmusic 6y ago
This is a fantastic effort! Kudos :-) I have been collecting learning resources and their reviews by experts at https://learnawesome.org/ https://learnawesome.org/ (open-source, built with Ruby on Rails and TailwindCSS). Would you be kind enough to share the raw JSON files for their books? LearnAwesome has its own topic taxonomy so it will still require tagging topics manually, but it can save me some effort on scraping/parsing LSE/Nature sites.
- pizzicato 6y ago
  Your site looks awesome indeed! It reminds me of https://learn-anything.xyz https://learn-anything.xyz but with a stronger focus on community. Here you go! Only the titles and review URLs were taken from the original sites. The rest are from Google Books. Science and Nature: https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/fd264434b2b92ba6dac08714bfa076da https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/fd264434b2b92ba6dac0871... LSE: https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/c07e162df141ced84509a3f5105c77aa https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/c07e162df141ced84509a3f... The book tags were taken from the source HTML and seem to have been done very sloppily, especially the Nature ones, so you'd want to create your own tags anyway.

mathnmusic 6y ago

This is a fantastic effort! Kudos :-) I have been collecting learning resources and their reviews by experts at https://learnawesome.org/ https://learnawesome.org/ (open-source, built with Ruby on Rails and TailwindCSS). Would you be kind enough to share the raw JSON files for their books? LearnAwesome has its own topic taxonomy so it will still require tagging topics manually, but it can save me some effort on scraping/parsing LSE/Nature sites.

pizzicato 6y ago
Your site looks awesome indeed! It reminds me of https://learn-anything.xyz https://learn-anything.xyz but with a stronger focus on community. Here you go! Only the titles and review URLs were taken from the original sites. The rest are from Google Books. Science and Nature: https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/fd264434b2b92ba6dac08714bfa076da https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/fd264434b2b92ba6dac0871... LSE: https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/c07e162df141ced84509a3f5105c77aa https://gist.github.com/PizzaMyHeart/c07e162df141ced84509a3f... The book tags were taken from the source HTML and seem to have been done very sloppily, especially the Nature ones, so you'd want to create your own tags anyway.