ShelfTaught

@dredurr, thanks for the feedback and taking the time to comment! So, in terms of Amazon, there are a couple things: - I think the lists you share with your friends is a great way to use it, but that doesn't allow for discovery of people who aren't your friends, who may have similar tastes. But I can see that working well for a quote unquote closed group - In terms of Amazon reviews, the issue is you don't know whether the people rating the book actually know what they're talking about. When it's a fiction book that shouldn't matter maybe, but when it's non-fiction you would rather get a recommendation from someone in the field than the average Joe. I had a friend who bought a project management book off of Amazon and said it was waay to basic but it had a lot of 5 star reviews For Good Reads: - I think the best way of putting it is like this - If Good Reads is the facebook of books, we're aiming to be the LinkedIn. - The other way we're competing with Good Reads is just in design, trying to bring your books to the forefront and make it a more beautiful experience, but I still think we're not trying to compete with Good Reads head on. Curation: You recommend a book in gardening. That book gets tagged 'gardening' and 'health' maybe let's say. You can now be endorsed in both 'gardening' and 'health'. People you know endorse you 6 times for 'gardening' and 4 times for 'health'. Average Joe, Matt, and Lara also put up a different gardening book. They can also be endorsed for 'gardening' but no one thinks they know anything about gardening so they only get 1 endorsement each. I search in gardening, and your book recommendation comes up before the other book even though 3 people put up that book, why? Because your recommendation is weighted with the 6 endorsements you got vs. 3x1 endorsements for the others. Phew long reply, hope it helps!

@duncangarde very Dope 🚬🚬 Can you curate a list from people that are not part of the platform? For example Maria Popova from BrainPickings. I follow most of her recommendations. If she is not on the platform will I be able to find a “BrainPickings Recommendation” section?

Hey @dredurr, not at present. But the next phase of ShelfTaught is to start curating some people's recommendations and add them as a 'tribute to' profile or similar, still thinking about the name hahaha, which would be where this would fit in perfectly. So yeah not yet but soon. Just to clarify, I'm assuming you mean that we (ShelfTaught) would curate BrainPickings, but do you mean that you, yourself would like the ability to curate someone else's collection?

@duncangarde this is actually a reply helpful walk through - particularly the distinctions between value and functionality of shelftaught vs goodreads (& others). I learned a bit too, that I wasn't able to deduce with previous browsing. I hope you saved it to use again ;)

Hey thanks Nick, for the positive and also useful feedback, always looking to find ways to improve :). It took me a while to find resources when I was starting out programming too! We'll have to think about how to widen the search experience. Maybe something so that when you search for a tag it might give other tag suggestions if the one you're looking for isn't found? If that's not what you mean any bright ideas welcome :).

@amrith Haha thanks, I just like a good pun :), thanks for the comment!

@amrith @duncangarde Loves a pun

Thanks @nayan_y2n, really appreciate it!

@nayan_y2n I agree, I can definitely see myself using it a lot for non-fiction

Hey @sidsriramoju, thanks for the feedback. That sounds very doable. I'll add it to the development board and let you know when it's implemented :)