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

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Post by burkaman »

vardhanw wrote: post #18
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.

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

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

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

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Post by treerock »

vardhanw wrote: post #18
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.

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

I'd guess this

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...

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

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Post by Cenk »

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…

Try https://bookmarks.reviews

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

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Post by odie88 »

btrettel wrote: post #19
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.

Hey! Sorry about that. I pushed out a quick update for individual book pages to be titled {MapFilterFold - Book: [bookTitle]}

Hopefully that makes most of the bookmarking easier. I'll work on a solution for other pages later today!

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

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Post by odie88 »

burkaman wrote: post #21
vardhanw wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

There have been a few discussions about it on HN as well, where Alexey Guyzey, author of the criticism linked, joins in on the conversation:

(4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

(1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22419958

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

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 Wikipedia not be the best place to do this (an objective evaluation of the literature)? With links deep linking into the book with Open Library (and Internet Archive initiative)?
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