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Gnod is the classic reccomendation engine that works great and doesn’t harvest your data. It has a search for books: https://www.gnooks.com/faves.php https://w

Gnod is the classic reccomendation engine that works great and doesn’t harvest your data. It has a search for books: https://www.gnooks.com/faves.php https://www.gnooks.com/faves.php General Gnod: gnod.com

mckn1ght 2y ago
Wow, this has existed for at least 10 years, although the domain has had some wayback machine snapshots since like 2002 but I was too lazy to pinpoint where the project started. I love finding stuff like this that have been going for so long.
- righthand 2y ago
  Yes I thought it used to be FOSS but perhaps it is not to avoid corporations stealing the capability. Beyond that I find just asking someone also interested or finding a forum about the topic to be a good place to jump into the basics. Usually someone has already asked the question, “what else like this?” somewhere online. I have a weekly meetup for an unrelated hobby but I find asking “anyone see any good movies lately” to be a great way to talk about both old and new movies and break the ice during the social portion. Sometimes someone drops something I haven’t heard of related to the old or new movie.
idoubtit 2y ago
I was interested in this, but my 3 runs in their recommandations engine were almost complete failures. Their author list is plagued with homonyms.My first search had Dostoievsky in my 3 favorites. He was then recommended twice to me. It seems there are 7 distincts transliterations of his name. Then I put 3 Italian novelists as favorites, starting with Curzio Malaparte. I was first recommended a Scandinavian poet. Other recommendations had 2 poets and one philosopher. Overall, nothing useful: either known, or definitely not for me. My last run had 3 Russian classical novelists as favorites. The recommendations were a bit better, with two authors I'll try to read. There were obvious errors, like recommending Anrei Platonov then Andrey Platonov. And I really don't understand why I was recommended most of them, like Guillermo Cabrera Infante, or David Foster Wallace. BTW, the site "doesn’t harvest your data" but their links to booklists are blacklisted by UBlock as adware sites.
- righthand 2y ago
  If you go to the gnod homepage, you can see the literature map and it will maybe answer some of your questions. Sounds like you got 2 new recommendations at least already though.

mckn1ght 2y ago

Wow, this has existed for at least 10 years, although the domain has had some wayback machine snapshots since like 2002 but I was too lazy to pinpoint where the project started. I love finding stuff like this that have been going for so long.

righthand 2y ago
Yes I thought it used to be FOSS but perhaps it is not to avoid corporations stealing the capability. Beyond that I find just asking someone also interested or finding a forum about the topic to be a good place to jump into the basics. Usually someone has already asked the question, “what else like this?” somewhere online. I have a weekly meetup for an unrelated hobby but I find asking “anyone see any good movies lately” to be a great way to talk about both old and new movies and break the ice during the social portion. Sometimes someone drops something I haven’t heard of related to the old or new movie.

idoubtit 2y ago

I was interested in this, but my 3 runs in their recommandations engine were almost complete failures. Their author list is plagued with homonyms.My first search had Dostoievsky in my 3 favorites. He was then recommended twice to me. It seems there are 7 distincts transliterations of his name. Then I put 3 Italian novelists as favorites, starting with Curzio Malaparte. I was first recommended a Scandinavian poet. Other recommendations had 2 poets and one philosopher. Overall, nothing useful: either known, or definitely not for me. My last run had 3 Russian classical novelists as favorites. The recommendations were a bit better, with two authors I'll try to read. There were obvious errors, like recommending Anrei Platonov then Andrey Platonov. And I really don't understand why I was recommended most of them, like Guillermo Cabrera Infante, or David Foster Wallace. BTW, the site "doesn’t harvest your data" but their links to booklists are blacklisted by UBlock as adware sites.

righthand 2y ago
If you go to the gnod homepage, you can see the literature map and it will maybe answer some of your questions. Sounds like you got 2 new recommendations at least already though.