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by whelps 4902 days ago
I understand where the name came from, but bookbookgoose just doesn't work for me. Its just too long and unwieldy for me. As for the service itself, I am not sure what type of customer this is servicing. Are there people out there that are trying to find random books to read without any context (i.e. subject matter, recommendations from others, etc.)? Now, I think this would be a lot more useful if you could perhaps do the random thing but filtered by some criteria that makes it relevant to the user. So, for example, I want to read about 'javascript' and I search through random javascript books. It would also help to display the amazon rankings and other stats.
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it's probably a play on duckduckgo.
It's a play on "duck duck goose", the children's game. The similarity to duckduckgo was unintentional, but I like it. I actually wanted to call it "bookroulette", but all permutations of that domain were taken.
I own the domain name randomamazon.com. I always wanted to get around to doing something like this.
I like the name. I immediately knew it was a play on duck duck goose.
You could probably use a vacation away from tech.

Not trying to be mean. Just sayin'.