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Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

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Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

#21

Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when you click on a book to open the modal, the cursor does mysteriously change to `pointer` - and stays that way wherever the cursor is.

I agree that it shouldn't mysteriously be a pointer all the time, but using a pointer for the cursor is a preference, not a standard. In native apps (outside the web), the cursor is often not turned into a pointer when hovering clickable content.

Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

#23

800 books? That seems too large of a list to be useful, even for the most voracious reader.

I agree. In my youth, I will just read anything that catches my fancy.

Nowadays, I have to be picky about what books I read, even one amongst a pool of books that I like.

That or I have to reduce my time for my other hobbies.

Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

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Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends. This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level.

That makes more sense. I was thinking about the big box discount store Big Lots and my first thought was "they have a Discord?" followed by "they talk about books!?!".

Yes I was hoping this was the case!

Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

#27
Love the podcast!

But this seems just way too broad, basically what I would see in a curated local book store that I have anyway. Maybe this was the intention, but seeing all those books without the context why they were originally recommended on the discord doesn't seem to add a lot of value.

Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

#28
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Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends. This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level.

I wonder what Solvej Balle is doing in there then ...

Re: Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

#29

Love the podcast! But this seems just way too broad, basically what I would see in a curated local book store that I have anyway. Maybe this was the intention, but seeing all those books without the context why they were originally recommended on the discord doesn't seem to add a lot of value.

Agreed. If that would be too cumbersome to add, then a simple counter showing how many times a book has been recommended would help guide, me at least, a little better than just categories.
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