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A visual book recommender
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#32Anvaka's YASIV was an extremely strong tool in this space until Amazon discontinued the API it relied on.
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#33Did I miss how we are supposed to get recommendations from what OP built?
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#34This is awesome. I only wish the author haden't waited years after scrapping! Many books I've loved have been released in the past couple years
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#35Did I miss how we are supposed to get recommendations from what OP built?
Find something on the map that you know you like. Now look around it to see similar (i.e. if you like this, you're likely to like that) books.
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#36Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it. I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests. When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors. Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book th…
Oh man, Literature Map looks really great for finding recs.
That said, I do think book-level might be much more valuable. My first thought for this was Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. I haven't read anything else by him yet because my brother informs me his other stuff is entirely different. Looking at Goodreads, I think that qualifies as far from his biggest hit. Is it "more profound?"? Doubtful, but seems likely that you shouldn't group it with his others. I want recommendations based on the book I like, not the author I mostly might-not.
A better example might be how Stephenie Meyer wrote the extremely popular Twilight books, and also The Host which is much less well-known, and better in many respects. Probably qualifies as more profound, too—it's told from the perspective of a parasitic alien. Picture the Yeerks from Animorphs if you read those.)
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#37Id love to have https://same.energy for book contents.
woah, didn't know about this site! it is super cool! It feels like what Pinterest would be without the annoying bits.
Be careful, it'll become your defacto image search, and then you'll be really disappointed when you realize it hasn't been updated in ages
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#38Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it. I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests. When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors. Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book th…
I wish it was easier to see some of their books, or even copy and search the author from each page.
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#39Kind of hacky but I built something similar to apply the page rank algorithm to the authors referenced between books of various topics, here's the result for science:
https://camjohnson26.github.io/author-graph/science/
https://github.com/CamJohnson26/author-graph
Clearly needs a lot of data clean up but still was very helpful for discovering important scientists and their approximate relative impact
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#40This is super cool! I actually have been working on a new book recommendation site (https://braincandy.com) that has a similar-ish (but much smaller scale) visualization for book similarity. It is really interesting how certain genres tend to be much more insular than others and it can be a real challenge to break out of genre boxes when making recommendations. There's so many books out there on the edges and in-betweens that get lost when they don't fit neatly into an existing popular genre, and those indeed can be some of the most interesting.