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Me partly, shepherd.com, working to lower the number now as just added them in August and figuring them out. Shepherd is a book discovery platform, still in ba

• gardenhedge 4y ago
  Wow, that's a really cool site. I browsed around and didn't see any ads. Side note: I had to laugh when it recommended "The Little Engine That Could" because I looked up "The Hobbit"
  • bwb 4y ago
    Thanks! :), I am betting you might have an ad blocker? Very cool, where did it recommend The Little Engine That Could via the Hobbit? Very curious :)
• moralestapia 4y ago
  Congratulations Ben, what a great website!
  • bwb 4y ago
    thanks :), it has been a joy to build and work on. We are getting close to more base features in place and then I can start on the more unique approaches. I should have genres and age groups added this winter, then book series data, and slowly working toward a personalized book recommendation newsletter based on what books and authors you love.
    • moralestapia 4y ago
      Did you happen to know Cowbird(.com), by chance? (I tried to open it now but it seems down) It was a website from Jonathan Harris w/ stories from people all over the world. The way you link books together reminded a lot of that (places, topics, etc...).
      • bwb 4y ago
        I do not, so all fiction? That sounds awesome! Thanks! Ya I am basically trying to gather a lot of 5 book groupings around mood, theme, and topic (and eventually others). And, use that to help people bump into books better, and find them based on human groupings...
        • moralestapia 4y ago
          It was all user submitted stories, and the way they were intertwined together was truly exceptional. You can still kind of see something at the archive -> https://web.archive.org/web/20190511074620/http://cowbird.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190511074620/http://cowbird.co... >based on human groupings Yes, that exactly. I hope you can get some inspiration out of it :)
          • bwb 4y ago
            very cool, thanks for sharing :)