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.
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)
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.
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?
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:
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)