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.
@Stoori on librarything they seem to work better, at least for some niches. probably because users can make recommendations there and others can up/downvote them. but sadly librarything can be annoyingly complicated, it took me long to understand some basic functions.
@maunzikation Oh, I must explore LibraryThing more. Generally there are less reviews and less community action than in Goodreads, so I have used it only to catagolise own library so far.
@Stoori yes, it can feel a bit lonely there. I tried to keep both in sync for a while, but importing Goodreads data to Librarything didn't always work as I expected, so I stopped at some point. Maybe I should try it the other way around.
@maunzikation Importing data to Goodreads in order to get recommendations doesn't sound a good idea. Goodreads' recommendations are all bonkers.
”Because you read one Finnish books, how about reading all the other Finnish books?” How about no?
”Because you gave this book three stars, how about reading some other mediocre books?” How about recommending good books instead of mediocricities?
So yes, I use Goodreads to see what my friends read, and for that it's a decent tool.
@Stoori yes, that was how i pictured it, too. using librarything for recommendations, and goodreads for community.
@Stoori (in some places, automatic and member recommendations are separated, like in the screenshot, in others they are mixed, i think. it is also possible to rate automatic recommendations.) https://computerfairi.es/media/ommZ9UqJQq244Gg7qzs