Taru LuojolaApr 21, 2017

Oh how I would love to have a website which could recommend me #books — and whose recommendations would actually work!

I've been using #Goodreads for years, but one of the features I would most love there is one of the worst: recommendations. They just don't work. They're total bullshit, based on commercial ends more than on artistic attributes of books.

I want working recommendations. Do you know where to get them? And algorithmically, so that they won't run out.

Show threadJessSloan
@Stoori I don't know if that's possible really. I mean, taste is such a personal and dynamic thing that it would be exceedingly difficult to mathematically divine which books a person might like based on previously enjoyed reads.
May 5, 2017 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadTaru LuojolaMay 6, 2017
@JessSloan Sure there is room to do better than give random tosses. If a person gives feedback after reading those suggestions, the next round will yield better results, and so on.