Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…

  • Ichebi@lemmy.pt
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    1 year ago

    I’m using it but I’m a bit disappointed that I have 500+ books that didn’t import and I have to do it manually. They will need to implement something like the librarians role there because the editions are getting messy already, I would be down to help as I did on GR before being bought by Amazon. Well, I’ll keep loging what I read of course and I hope it grows and gets better.

    • renard_roux@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I went through the export from GoodReads and import to Bookwyrm, and was also disappointed.

      I only had 2 books that wouldn’t import, but once I was in, the lack of filtering and data-based lists was very meh. Maybe I’m missing something?

      • how do I browse books by category? I can only find user-generated lists.
      • how do I sort lists by popularity/rating? I can’t see a single filtering option.
      • no recommendations? Granted, GoodReads sucks at this as well, but I would really like there to be an algorithm that was somewhat capable of looking at what I like and suggesting similar things.

      I know that recommendations require some data that might not be there, but there should also be data available already that is workable for a rudimentary Recommendations system:

      — Sort my Read Books List by My Rating as List W. — Select top 5 books from List W, sort by Book Rating, as List W¹. — Book X is the top book in List W¹, and is classified as being in Category X. — Find Book X in other libraries as List Y. — (if data available, sort List X by some sort of metric, e.g. amount of list Likes). — Select top list in List X as List Y. — Look at other books in List Y, select any that are in Category X. This is List Z. — Sort List Z by Book Rating, return top 5 books as Recommendations.

      I know Bookwyrm is open source, but I don’t have the skills to write something like that 😕

      (I’ve tried editing the horrible formatting of my suggestions, but they don’t seem to be saving. I’ll try again later)