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by padolsey 648 days ago
Niiice! I really like it. The spatial approach is cool, though labelling/annotations/axes would help.

I share the frustraion with getting book covers for my project ablf.io. Amazon used to make this much easier, but they've locked it down recently, so you have to jump through affiliate hoops. I ended up implementing my own thing and storing thousands of images myself on S3. If you have the goodreads IDs, feel free to use:

    assets.abooklike.foo/covers/{goodreads id}.jpg
N.B. The actual goodreads website itself make it hard as well since they have an additional UUID in their img URIs, so it's not deterministic; that's why I created this.
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That’s a great website. I’ve been looking for alternative book recommendation websites for a while and it really has nailed it down.

It even recommended me a somewhat eclectic book I’ve recently been meaning to read.

Is there a reason you limit to only 6 favorite books? Is it due to computational restraints?

Nice site! I like that I can filter results by fiction or non-fiction. Interesting to enter my favourite novels and see the non-fiction that's recommended. Some surprisingly good picks!