π Good Books is a curated collection of book recommendations from the world's most successful, influential and interesting people. We've spent 6 months analysing 15,000+ book recommendations and have handpicked the best to add to your reading list.
Let me know who you'd love book recommendations from in the comments and I'll add them to the listπ
This project started about 6-months ago when I started to keep track of all the books that I wanted to read and who recommended them. I then got (a little) obsessed with the project and ended up accumulating over 15,000 book recommendations from about 1,250 people...
I built Good Books to share these book recommendations with the world, organising them into simple categories and industries so it's easy to find your next read.
What's next for Good Books?
π 100s more recommendations every month πββοΈ Adding more interesting people (who would you like to see?) π Writing some curated recommendation lists π© Planning a weekly newsletter with recommendations π΅οΈββοΈ Adding sources to book recommendations
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But you don't have to. What you can also do is, as you already suggested get a list of titles from somewhere (say, from a database of ISBNs or scrape them from Amazon) and perform simple string to string matching (maybe with some fuzziness to account for variation in spelling, where NLP techniques might help). In fact, I would recommend that because titles generally vary a lot, from single words to phrases or... Source: about 2 years ago
Https://isbndb.com/ - they don't have a free plan, so I was not able to test their data yet. Source: over 2 years ago
Yes I've not have the time to look into it. There is an API but it will cost you $10.. Source: over 2 years ago
Do you mind if I ask what database you're using? I've played around with isbndb but yours is a lot better. I like to play around with different types of categorization for books and would LOVE access to this data xD. Source: over 2 years ago
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