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Added. Opinions: A) I love all the scifi book recommendations that cone up on HN B) i wish you’d all stop recommending great and amazing books. My queue is s

Added. Opinions: A) I love all the scifi book recommendations that cone up on HN B) i wish you’d all stop recommending great and amazing books. My queue is so backlogged and jammed I'm never going to catch up.

arto 1y ago
So many books, so little time...
- mewpmewp2 1y ago
  If only we had an even bigger universe, we would have more time... is that how it works?
  - figassis 1y ago
    Like this? https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-6-months/page/0/0 https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-...
    - dwaltrip 1y ago
      That’s a very cool app, but I think it is missing many, many references to books in HN comments? It only has like 15 total sci-fi books. I don’t see any of my comments mentioning some sci-fi books.
      - figassis 1y ago
        It's a bit old. I bookmarked it a while ago, I don't think it has an update mechanism. A daily frontpage pull + AI parsing should be enough to keep it up to date.
- baw-bag 1y ago
  There needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.
  - acjacobson 1y ago
    You'd like this then: https://hackernewsbooks.com https://hackernewsbooks.com
  - lttlrck 1y ago
    That would be fantastic.
RGamma 1y ago
What's a couple dozen books (and video games) in my backlog when I have a thousand websites there?
fibonachos 1y ago
Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
donohoe 1y ago
Please share the queue!
HocusLocus 1y ago
OK then, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my own sci-fi book I put out there free forever to listen ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA ) and free forever to read/download/listen ( https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl ) because I don't want to navigate the self-publishing world, just want some feedback before I die. Only joking, I'm remiss anyways.

arto 1y ago

So many books, so little time...

mewpmewp2 1y ago
If only we had an even bigger universe, we would have more time... is that how it works?
- figassis 1y ago
  Like this? https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-6-months/page/0/0 https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-...
  - dwaltrip 1y ago
    That’s a very cool app, but I think it is missing many, many references to books in HN comments? It only has like 15 total sci-fi books. I don’t see any of my comments mentioning some sci-fi books.
    - figassis 1y ago
      It's a bit old. I bookmarked it a while ago, I don't think it has an update mechanism. A daily frontpage pull + AI parsing should be enough to keep it up to date.
baw-bag 1y ago
There needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.
- acjacobson 1y ago
  You'd like this then: https://hackernewsbooks.com https://hackernewsbooks.com
- lttlrck 1y ago
  That would be fantastic.

RGamma 1y ago

What's a couple dozen books (and video games) in my backlog when I have a thousand websites there?

fibonachos 1y ago

Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.

donohoe 1y ago

Please share the queue!

HocusLocus 1y ago

OK then, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my own sci-fi book I put out there free forever to listen ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA ) and free forever to read/download/listen ( https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl ) because I don't want to navigate the self-publishing world, just want some feedback before I die. Only joking, I'm remiss anyways.