Monday, May 19, 2008

Member book recommendations

I've just added a small new feature, Member recommendations. You can check it out under "Recommendations" here or here.*

Basically, you can now add your own recommendations to LibraryThing's six (!) algorithmic recommendations. If you want, you can also leave a short explanation of your choice.

I'm throwing this one out pretty raw.** It's available from the primary page of a work, and from its recommendation page, and on a single Member Recommendations page.

To be done:
  • A way to see all the recommendations you've given
  • A way to see all the recommendations others have applied to your books
  • Recommendation flagging
  • Up/down voting on recommendations?
Come talk about the feature and where it could go on Talk here.


*I hope to link to some better examples soon, one members start adding them. I find fiction recommendations very hard, so most of my recommendations so far have been off ancient history, which makes the feature seem much less interesting than it is!
**I've had this on ice for a while, while dealing with tags and scaling issues. I don't think I'm going to be making major changes until Chris comes back from paternity leave later this week or next.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Mark Nenadov said...

I like it!

5/19/2008 9:19 PM  
Blogger Alanna Smythee said...

Okay, made my first recommendation, let's see how it goes.

5/20/2008 12:50 AM  
Blogger Linda said...

Just discovered this feature and have been playing with it. Very cool. But, is there a way to reciprocate the recommendations automatically? i.e., rather than first going into "Kristin Lavransdatter" to recommend "The Greenlanders", then going to "The Greenlanders to recommend "Kristin Lavransdatter", the system would do this automatically?

5/21/2008 11:11 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I like the idea a lot - saw something similar on a site recently where the books were ranked in order by the various user votes (Book recommendations)which seemed to work pretty well - although it's in its early stages at the moment I think. Is there any ranking system you could get within this site itself? Think it would at the very least very intriguing to see what books come out on top!

2/25/2009 10:42 AM  

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