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Bookbookgoose: browse books, randomly

• japhyr 14y ago
  Is this a random walk through the store? Might be more engaging if it was weighted towards highly recommended books. As it is, it seems to be a walk through the long tail of amazon's catalog. Interesting for a moment, but nothing I'm likely to read.
  • feintruled 14y ago
    Agreed it needs to be weighted - out of the ten or so books I browsed I got 3 self-published erotic novels with stock photo covers.
• Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  Not sure whether epi0Bauqu is going to appreciate it, but I love the name.
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• brudgers 14y ago
  I can say with confidence that I've never browsed into a bodice ripper. I browse books systematically. Always have. I walk in the door and head to a section. I might start in the middle, but then I work one way, or the other. Even in an unfamiliar bookstore, I use signs for orientation. In the library, when I browse an unfamiliar section of the stacks it is only due to choosing an unfamiliar section of the stacks. I might be surprised that I found an interesting cookbook on British cuisine, but I was not surprised to see a cookbook. Browsing is intentional not passive. No algorithm can replicate my experience of doing it. An algorithm can only present choices which facilitate it. Amazon already does that to some degree.