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Any one use Book Digits instead of Goodreads? A buddy of mine made it and I find it to have a much better recommendation engine. "At BookDigits, we want to change the way you read and help you find your next favorite book. Our innovative rating system is unlike anything else on the web. To learn more, visit our tutorial. Thanks for being a BookDigits member! Make sure to stop by your profile page to find your next reading challenge. And don't forget to try out the new Find Me a Book recommendation tool." I'm also looking for alternatives to Goodreads. I like BookDigits but I'm always on the lookout for others. Much love.
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Jun 8, 2021 08:26
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I'm taking that as a no. No one uses anything other than GoodReads?
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Jun 13, 2021 08:04
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The idea seems solid but like most internet endeavors it's not the idea that carries so much weight as the userbase. And humans tend to congregate where humans have congregated. If it's any consolation, I don't actively use GoodReads either, though sometimes it comes up in search results.
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Jun 13, 2021 22:01
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i asked their recommendation for something 'literary' with no preference for time period(their tagging and categorisation systems seem to be really stupid) and it gave me the silmarillion, meanwhile goodreads will give me insane literary crapola that's only been published in romanian just based on what i've already read. seems like some fail to me
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Jun 14, 2021 10:53
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A human heart posted:i asked their recommendation for something 'literary' with no preference for time period(their tagging and categorisation systems seem to be really stupid) and it gave me the silmarillion, meanwhile goodreads will give me insane literary crapola that's only been published in romanian just based on what i've already read. seems like some fail to me How is their tagging and categorization stupid? Goodreads has always recommended me garbage.
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Jun 15, 2021 08:02
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asking me to specify if i want to read something 'entertaining' as opposed to something 'serious and literary' is a silly dichotomy to begin with, but then they also gave me a list of tags that i might be interested in and half of it was trivia like 'Cats', 'School', 'Mental Illness' as if anyone picks a book to read based solely on whether it has a cat in it. the goodreads algorithms aren't particularly good but you can get them to recommend you things based on lists of books you make, and they'll tend to give you stuff that other people who read those books have also read, which means that you do tend to get vaguely relevant things you might not have heard of popping up. meanwhile this site recommended an author that everyone's heard of anyways that i don't want to read.
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Jun 15, 2021 11:23
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A human heart posted:asking me to specify if i want to read something 'entertaining' as opposed to something 'serious and literary' is a silly dichotomy to begin with, but then they also gave me a list of tags that i might be interested in and half of it was trivia like 'Cats', 'School', 'Mental Illness' as if anyone picks a book to read based solely on whether it has a cat in it. the goodreads algorithms aren't particularly good but you can get them to recommend you things based on lists of books you make, and they'll tend to give you stuff that other people who read those books have also read, which means that you do tend to get vaguely relevant things you might not have heard of popping up. meanwhile this site recommended an author that everyone's heard of anyways that i don't want to read. Well, surely it's not perfect. But recommending a well-known author seems like a good thing to start with. Anyway, thanks for taking a look. I think it's kind of entertaining but entirely useful. Just wanted to know if there were any GR alternatives I hadn't come across.
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Jun 15, 2021 12:52
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