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I dumped it even pre Amazon purchase .. The killer feature I still want is to see highly rated books I haven't read from people who highly rate books I rate als
by snarf21 3y ago
I dumped it even pre Amazon purchase .. The killer feature I still want is to see highly rated books I haven't read from people who highly rate books I rate also rate high .. Recommendations are far too often it is always just genre/author/popularity recs .. Honestly, I'd be happy with a SQL interface where I could do my own searching :)
- padolsey 3y agoI had the exact same feeling several years ago so I made a graph-based app that does that! ablf.io/?q & ablf.io/goodreads (the latter lets you upload your existing goodreads lib if u want)
- hotnfresh 3y agoYuuuup. A lot of people have a very different idea of “good” than I do, and then there’s the tendency to rate anything that wasn’t terrible a 5 (on everything with ratings, not just good reads). The ratings distribution gets smashed against the top of the range, making it almost useless. Like… lots of OK books that plenty of people enjoy are a 3, even judged only against their peers. That’s fine. I want the actual 5s, though. I’ve got too much to read as it is, if I’m going to add something to the list I don’t want to factor in the ratings from someone who rated the worst Harry Potter book a 4 or 5.