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Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by BubbaHool »

julvo wrote: post #7

This is a great resource, thank you! Tangentially related, it would be interesting to require book recommendations to always come with anti-recommendations, i.e. which books not to read. Often, I feel like there's a bias towards recommending books, after oneself committed to reading them. If I were asked to list the top 50% of books I've read (without counting), I'd probably list more than 50% of books I read.

Damn, thats a good idea. Would like to see a list with commentary of books you shouldnt read.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by hikarudo »

eatonphil wrote: post #10

On my wishlist is a book site that will also give you top positive and negative reviews for each book from high quality sources like Boston Review or The Atlantic. I like to pair reading a book with what's happened since or other ideas at the time. I don't always remember to do this though so that's why getting these review recommendations from GoodReads (for example) would be ideal. For example, parts of Thinking Fa…

I've often wished for the same thing. I want to know what's wrong about the book before investing time in it.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by joshvm »

eatonphil wrote: post #10

On my wishlist is a book site that will also give you top positive and negative reviews for each book from high quality sources like Boston Review or The Atlantic. I like to pair reading a book with what's happened since or other ideas at the time. I don't always remember to do this though so that's why getting these review recommendations from GoodReads (for example) would be ideal. For example, parts of Thinking Fa…

After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by eatonphil »

joshvm wrote: post #13
eatonphil wrote: post #10

On my wishlist is a book site that will also give you top positive and negative reviews for each book from high quality sources like Boston Review or The Atlantic. I like to pair reading a book with what's happened since or other ideas at the time. I don't always remember to do this though so that's why getting these review recommendations from GoodReads (for example) would be ideal. For example, parts of Thinking Fa…

After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.

That is a good point. Also reminds me I'd like a site that lists all the references in a book so I can more easily search them on the computer and not necessarily need to even own the book.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by cloverich »

eatonphil wrote: post #14
joshvm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.

That is a good point. Also reminds me I'd like a site that lists all the references in a book so I can more easily search them on the computer and not necessarily need to even own the book.

That's a good thought. The next step is going in reverse, selecting the best referenced material and auto generating a quality non-fiction book from it. That's my dream.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by vardhanw »

joshvm wrote: post #13
eatonphil wrote: post #10

On my wishlist is a book site that will also give you top positive and negative reviews for each book from high quality sources like Boston Review or The Atlantic. I like to pair reading a book with what's happened since or other ideas at the time. I don't always remember to do this though so that's why getting these review recommendations from GoodReads (for example) would be ideal. For example, parts of Thinking Fa…

After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.

Would you minding pointing to what the fiasco was about. I read the book based on all round positive reviews and recommendations.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by btrettel »

odie88 wrote: post #2

MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018. The site uses Amazon affiliate links. There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since…

Can you change the page titles to be more descriptive? I've bookmarked a few of these pages but had to manually change the titles to have the book title in them.

Re: Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

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Post by odie88 »

Dockson wrote: post #15

This is really cool! Is there any particular sorting on pages like https://mapfilterfold.com/articles/early_founders or is it just whatever order you put them there?

Hi, thanks! Frankly the articles (the three panels/links at the top of the home page) need more attention, but I wanted to have the feeling of "done" so I pushed the site out as-is.

On those pages, books aren't ranked in any particular order, other than trying to pull attention to some slightly buried books that I do personally recommend. I'd love to hear, are there any books you'd add to those pages?

The "Oddities and fun" page is simply a collection of books from my notes that stuck out as interesting while I manually approved all parsed comments and book mentions.

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