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Ask HN: How do you get recommendations for books that are up your alley?
Basically the title.
Where do you go to find book recommendations that align with your tastes?
- caprock 7mo agoIt's intriguing how book recs aren't really that good anywhere. I mean they are ok, but rarely great. Google and Amazon have most of the text but still don't solve this so well. In any event, I sometimes use GoodReads. You can go to the page for a representative book and then start browsing the "readers also enjoyed" list. I also use LibraryThing in a similar way.
- tim-tday 7mo agoThe problem is the perverse incentives of recommendations and profit.
- chistev 7mo agoHow to solve it?
- chistev 7mo agoWhy do you think the problem is hard to solve?
- caprock 7mo agoIt's technically quite feasible with modern search and language model technology. The challenge is in acquiring all the book text, meaningful cost to implement, and minimal paths to revenue generation. For various reasons, the organizations that have the text aren't incentivized to deliver best recs for a user, as tim noted.
- tim-tday 7mo agoI subscribe to the newsletter from Borderlands books in San Francisco. The last dozen authors or series I’ve discovered have been from there. lists.borderlands-books.com Whenever I’m in town I stop in and buy something off their staff picks table.