It works great, I've already seen a couple of things I fancy reading now.
I am amazed that the app can find any relevant comments mentioning "It" by Steven King, for example. That seems like magic. A few IT and It's are in there too, but still impressive.
I was intrigued to see "Twilight" quite high on the list of fiction, doesn't seem like something the HN demographic would read. Turns out most comments were about the board game / video game Twilight Struggle, or Zelda Twilight Princess, and those comments mentioning the book were not doing so in a particularly positive way.
"One Hundred Years Of Solitude" is often commented as "100 Years Of Solitude" so the system can miss a few comments there.
For an improvement, it'd be handy if the comments that mention other books had a way to link you to that book, so you could see other comments. For example, if you click Dune, and see someone saying "yeah, I liked Dune, and also x, y and z", then those other books should be clickable too, so you could see what other people say about them. Seems like the information could already be there in the database as a list-like comment could potentially appear in many book recommendations, but who knows.
I am amazed that the app can find any relevant comments mentioning "It" by Steven King, for example. That seems like magic. A few IT and It's are in there too, but still impressive.
I was intrigued to see "Twilight" quite high on the list of fiction, doesn't seem like something the HN demographic would read. Turns out most comments were about the board game / video game Twilight Struggle, or Zelda Twilight Princess, and those comments mentioning the book were not doing so in a particularly positive way.
"One Hundred Years Of Solitude" is often commented as "100 Years Of Solitude" so the system can miss a few comments there.
For an improvement, it'd be handy if the comments that mention other books had a way to link you to that book, so you could see other comments. For example, if you click Dune, and see someone saying "yeah, I liked Dune, and also x, y and z", then those other books should be clickable too, so you could see what other people say about them. Seems like the information could already be there in the database as a list-like comment could potentially appear in many book recommendations, but who knows.