Book Recommendations

[bibliothecary]

Description of your request or bug report:
Just making @Jintor’s idea a formal request.

@Jintor

Wondering if there was a prod request for a ‘recommend around similar level’ feature on individual book pages, especially if it could filter if you had already read that book or not, were not interested so it knew to not show you that series again etc. I know you can just use the search engine to find books in that level range, but I think it might be handy on book pages.

I envision this as not being affected by tags/content/author or anything in the vein of what I presume Amazon or commercial sites do - a simple ‘hey, this book is also in this level range, do you think you might be interested’ sort of thing only, just as a way of discovering new reads.

@bibliothecary

I like the idea of recommended books appearing on book pages. As you say, there are different ways of doing it.

A recommendation section could include books that are:

• not on any of your lists
• have an average score of 3+ stars
• are good for language learning
  • have a similar natively level (give or take a couple of levels)
  • also have furigana (if applicable)
  • (possibly) are the same type (manga, light novel, etc)
• are similarly entertaining
  • people who liked this (4+ star rating) also liked…
  • similar natively level or any level up to the highest level on your finished list
  • share content tags

I haven’t thought it out, but the individual entertainment/language learning ratings may be useful here, too.

Similar / related requests:

• Link to "other books at this level" from "level nn" tag popup
• Detailed language evaluations
• Compute "affinity" and give suggestions of people to follow

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[Jintor]

Thanks for writing this one up!

[brandon]

Approved - not entirely sure of the final implementations, but these are all great thoughts!