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Show HN: Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments

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As an aside, on this topic - are there any amazing books that grow your mind / life (power of habit, learning new things, whatever you think fits my sentence) in audiobook form?

I've been wanting to use my commute time for personal growth, but a lot of books don't lend themselves to audiobook forms. Thoughts?

Right behind you. If I'm going to burn 45 minutes a day, at least I could be listening to something that will up my knowledge.

For 45 minutes a day, I'd recommend the BBC In Our Time podcast, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each week, academics talk about a particular topic from the world of science, history, philosophy etc. It's unashamedly high-brow. There's a huge back catalogue as well.

Thanks, looks great!

Looks good. Listening to it right now

Have you tried Audible?

https://www.audible.com

Bible

Cool site! Reminds me a lot of https://thingsonreddit.com/ which was also shared here recently.

What is your formula for popularity score?

This is cool - I think it might be more compelling if you created some sort of infographic or analysis on top of this data that pulls the user in a bit.

What list did you use for book recognition? Are you only doing exact matches?

OP, if you are the developer of the page, can you make it that users can select the number of books to be displayed on each topic? That would be pretty useful.

Hey yep I'm the developer. What's your use case for this feature? Is it just overwhelming with too many books?

Actually the opposite lol. I'd like to get more books, for instance, on a certain topic, since I'm an avid reader and would like to get the most out of this tool.

For instance, people interested ONLY in startups, don't care about the other categories, but STARTUPS, so getting the top, let's say 50 books on startups would be their use case.

Additional feature request: update the URL for each category so that I can easily share a particular list (e.g., https://redditfavorites.com/drawing). Thanks!

Nice idea. Remove the React favicon ;)

Latest XKCD[1] looks like related

[1] http://xkcd.com/1909

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