http://www.bookhu.com<p><i>The problem I'm trying to solve:</i><p>I'm a casual reader of fiction. Once or twice a year I visit amazon and browse their bestsellers looking for inspiration. I don't keep up-to-date with fiction and find it quite time consuming to find something suitable. I thought it would be great to have a couple of filters based on the readership/intended market for a given book so I could at least make a quick shortlist.<p>Last week I decided to see if I could make a start on something that might suit starting with the gender of the readers. Yesterday I launched Bookhu.com which lets you search for any book (via the Amazon API) and see the gender split of the people who review the book together with the average rating by gender.<p>It's very early days (I only started on it last week) but any thoughts would be appreciated.
Chicks dig Knuth: <a href="http://www.bookhu.com/analyse/?ASIN=0321637135&title=The+Art+of+Computer+Programming++Vol++4++Fascicles+0+4++5+Volume+Set+" rel="nofollow">http://www.bookhu.com/analyse/?ASIN=0321637135&title=The...</a><p>It would be nice if it would show the breakdown when you search an author rather than making you click again for a breakdown for each book. Having worked with Amazon's shitty API, I'm guessing that their constraints forced you to do it like that. If I were working with them again I'd ignore their API and scrape HTML instead.
Good stuff. Agree with what has been said about it looking like a domain parking page.<p>Thoughts:
- The simple look is very useful. List of books, search, categories. Well done.
- The feedback "tab"(?) at the side. Why not move it to the bottom right, or at the top as a menu item?
Two thoughts:<p>1. The site looks like a domain parking page.<p>2. Why can I not view books sorted by gender distribution? That seems like the entire point of the site, yet I can't do it.