Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets

UI note: when something looks like a button, it needs to be a button. The genre "buttons" are only active right around their text, which means that "SF" has a much smaller active area than "History", even though they present the same visual appearance.

I'd like it even more streamlined. Send five anonymized snippets to my inbox every Friday and let me click one button to order one of them to my door. Anyone know a service like this?

It seems like this is going to be heavily biased away from traditionally published books if the authors/publishers have to upload the chapter. I'd actually prefer they were using Amazon to pull in mainstream books.

As a side note, I love the footnote:<p>&quot;3NJ uses cookies to function. For some insane reason EU law requires me to tell you this. By continuing I assume your permission to do so. Complete info on what they&#x27;re used for is here. This banner will only appear once.&quot;

I spend about 1 hour a week at the bookstore, usually taking random books and reading the first page(s).<p>I also try to discover new books on Amazon from time to time by going over their selections and recommendations but I end up reading the same circle of authors.<p>I think your idea is brilliant by matching my IRL process. I wish you a lot of success.<p>EDIT: about the website itself it&#x27;s nicely done, minimalist and easy. I&#x27;d change the &quot;Choose a genre&quot; button to a dropdown. Also I&#x27;d have the top navigation (the exploration&#x2F;submit buttons) merged with the right one with the menu following the scroll. This would be a a good incentive to navigate around (easier and faster too).

Very creative, I will give this a try. However, I do think editors&#x2F;publishers provide value in that they at separate the wheat from the chaff.

It would be great if this works, but there is a lot of noise in the book world. Even with good filtering I find myself putting down a lot of drivel. This said, if it opens up the variety of what we&#x27;re reading, it can&#x27;t hurt. Sometimes I wonder if Amazon and friends unduly cut down on the variety of what I see. The browsing ability of bookstores has been lost.

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I like this. It presents a snippet from a book, you can choose to read a longer snippet and then choose to get the book name and details.

All the random entries I got were either SF or crime... I think the source list of books may have some bias torwards those genres

Seeing as the random from the fantasy genre always gives me item 220, I feel as though it is not very random.

I just posted the first chapter of my graphic novel. I&#x27;m interested to see how they react to this.