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by SamBam
2104 days ago
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How does that follow? I can't imagine that there are any book recommendations -- be they your friends, the Book Review section of your favorite newspaper, or whatever -- that gets things right for almost every single review. That's absurd. When I see a book recommendation, I read the associated review (if it has one), read other people's reviews, look at the author and the blurb, and, yes, even the cover. That tells me much more than a YouTube thumbnail, with only a little more time (but of course I'm going to put more time into choosing a book that might take me two weeks to finish). Indeed, my initial filter is probably much the same as a YouTube thumbnail: I skim past many recommendations based on the genre and author alone. I think if the Times Book Review always wrote reviews in which 1 out of 15 of them made me thing "I need to get that book," I'd be amazed at how much they "get" me. I wouldn't bother with anything else. Every 15 recommendations lands me another "must-read?" Sign me up! The problem listed in the article is that Goodreads is no where near 1 out of 15. |
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