I had pretty successful topic about books the other day<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309671<p>And my mind just can't stop thinking about project 'Hacker News for books'. I know that reddit has r/books, but I would like to have a clean UI/UX like HN.<p>Whare are your thougts?
HN's UX depends heavily on quality moderation that persists over the long term, thereby encouraging the thoughtful discussion to become the norm.<p>A single-category site about books is also not necessarily going to attract the same breadth of voices as HN can.
I wouldn't read too much into the success of that one thread, but 20 years after "if you like this you might like that because" systems first appeared for movies, music, books, I personally remain frustrated that...this is still not an effectively solved problem. I continue to need human curators- Tyler Cowen being an astonishing prolific source for both books and music, but people I follow on Twitter before its implosion being a solid source as well- and/or to actually read/listen to a good sample myself, which takes professional level time and attention, which I cannot devote to a leisure activity. A chatgpt like dialogue- I liked x, y aspects of z content, suggest one to me, etc- seems achievable now. Cheers.
I want an up to date version of <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...</a><p>there's also this, which I just found: <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GiEdQ79EDMjggtBKf/best-non-textbooks-on-every-subject" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GiEdQ79EDMjggtBKf/best-non-t...</a>