What Should I Read Next?

[Guy Ian Scott Pursey]

Hi Robert,

Have you tried Shelfari? http://www.shelfari.com

I've been using it from time to time - it's sort of a social networking
site centred around books. So you can basically ask other people what
you should read next, rather than a machine...

Guy


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Mahnke
Sent: 04 December 2008 15:19
To: David Morris; P-list
Subject: Re: What Should I Read Next?


I have spent too much time over the years telling Amazon.com how much I
liked books, in the hopes that their fancy algorithms and massive
database would give me some useful recommendations, and I have always
been disappointed with the results.  They do things like tell you to
read another book by an author you like (gee, thanks) or the latest
Harry Potter (ditto).  It seems like someone should be able to do a good
job of this, and that Amazon.com should be better positioned than anyone
else to do this with books, but no.  Has anyone had better luck with
this sort of thing?  Does anyone know why the technology doesn't work
better?

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 4, 2008 10:02 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: What Should I Read Next?
>
>http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search
>
>Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real
readers'
>favourite books (over 47,000 and growing) to suggest what you could
read next.