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I'm using Goodreads to manage the books that I read and plan to read. I sometimes looks at the reviews of the books, but never look at the star rating because
by eterevsky 3y ago
I'm using Goodreads to manage the books that I read and plan to read.
I sometimes looks at the reviews of the books, but never look at the star rating because of how uninformative it is. For most of the books that I care about their rating is somewhere between 3.0 and 4.5 and I can't for the life of me see any correlation between the my enjoyment of the book and its rating. I always assumed that this is just a consequence of taste in books being so different for different people. Averaging these personal preferences just doesn't produce a good signal.
Which brings me to the question: does anybody actual care about ratings on Goodreads?