For what it's worth: I'm finding the general community vibe, as well as the features, to be better over at https://hardcover.app. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I missed this when you posted, but I'd love for you to check out Hardcover! ( https://hardcover.app/ ). We do exactly what you described - recommending books based on collaborative filtering and comparing your tastes with similar readers. There are a few ways we make this available: * We calculate a "match score" from 0% to 100% for you with each book that we can. A score of 100% means we're pretty sure you'll... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I agreed when I tried it out, couldn't quite put my finger on it. So far I've been keeping an eye on Hardcover by using it alongside Goodreads which seems promising, at least feels a little more natural in use (though maybe that's just me). Maybe you'll like it? Source: 11 months ago

Just to 2nd waht d4nyll said, try https://app.thestorygraph.com/ or https://hardcover.app/ Both are great for book tracking, and I think Story Graph has better "social features" then most (and they are about to work on more). I run Shepherd.com, I am trying to create a book discovery experience like wandering a bookstore. Something I don't think Goodreads or any websites do well. So far I've interviewed 8,000+... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

This is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hardcover.app&pli=1 Also to the web app: https://hardcover.app. Source: about 1 year ago

> The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version. https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 6 months ago

I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 7 months ago

Like these guys? https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago