Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
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Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#2Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by people who've also read the books entered?
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#3Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
Loved it, but I felt a large proportion of the 'bubble breakers for software engineers' are actually referenced quite often on hacker news. Not 'Taking charge of your fertility' though.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#4Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
Loved it, but I felt a large proportion of the 'bubble breakers for software engineers' are actually referenced quite often on hacker news. Not 'Taking charge of your fertility' though.
Which two books did you add?
I got that recommendation too.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#5Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
I fell in love with this straight away. I'd love to be able to add my whole library tho.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#6I really like this idea but I think it would be nice to the recommendations to a specific language. After adding
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Infinite Jest
- Asterix the Gaul
I get a bunch recommendations for Spanish books (which I can't read).
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#7Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
Thank you for this service. What database are you using when looking for intersections?
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#8Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
That’s really great! Congrats.
If you can do an Amazon/Audible integration, that would be awesome (and will let you build your recommendation system?).
From experience, I like to read the most populars/iconics books outside my perspective/pov, even though, if I had to grade them, it wouldn't be 5/5.
Maybe though, the most problematic of theses "ideological bubbles" is that people don't generally want to escape it.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#9Slightly unrelated but a little bit related.
Been looking for a similar tool but for music. I love Spotify's recommendations for the most part, but sometimes I want to dive out of my music bubble and explore new genres or new anything really. Basically what I'm looking for is a tool that can give me recommendations of the music that is the opposite of what I usually listen to, or something like that. Anyone know of any?
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#10Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
That’s really great! Congrats. If you can do an Amazon/Audible integration, that would be awesome (and will let you build your recommendation system?). From experience, I like to read the most populars/iconics books outside my perspective/pov, even though, if I had to grade them, it wouldn't be 5/5. Maybe though, the most problematic of theses "ideological bubbles" is that people don't generally want to escape it.
Thanks! - When you say 'Amazon integration' do you mean like an import of books read so far? I think that's a great idea. I've been exploring doing that with Goodreads. Re: escaping ideological bubbles, I do agree, though I think that curiosity and gentle exposure can expand peoples' bubbles in a small enough way that it doesn't evoke ideological dissonance (especially in the realm of politics. Maybe there's a way that I can make it a gentler exposure to new ideas.