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Show HN: I compiled book recommendations from 1300+ leaders

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Great work. It looks absolutely polished and really well done. Can you describe the tech stack and how did you go about collecting images ?

Also, did you fetch the titles via Amazon ?

If you would like to be featured on https://hackerspad.net, please let me know.

Hey, thank you! It's built on react and node. I fetched the titles from Amazon, but there's some manual work involved cleaning them up.

I'd love to be featured on https://hackerspad.net. Thank you!

Nice work, the design is very clean and fitting for a site about books. One comment: I was looking for a link on the header that would give me topics or categories, but couldn't find one. Eventually I realized "Books" was your categories page; maybe rename it so people can have an easier time finding it?

Thank you! And yes, that's a good point, I'll see how I can fix that.

You should check out another Show HN right now which might enhance the look and feel of your site even more: https://3d-book-css.netlify.app/

haha yea I saw that, looks really good. thank you!

Did people stop reading literature? Or they just don't advertise it?

Is there a way to see which books have been referenced most?

Yup, https://readthistwice.com/lists/most-recommended-books

This looks great, but this feels way too skewed to people who are popular or in roles of power. Is it really valuable to know what Trump is reading? Emma Watson? Ashton Kutcher? Oprah? Ellen? Musk? Tom Hanks? Like, at least Obama was in academia for a long time (also, tagging him just as "politician" is ... misleading), so he's probably well-read and has decent suggestions. Bill Gates has been incredibly active in third world development, the tech industry, etc., so he likely also has decent suggestions. But ... Alicia Keys? There's way too much noise here.

Edit: BTW, I'm surprised by how well this performs. What did you use to build this?

I was actually deliberate about adding these people. The mission here is to make people read more and some people might not be impressed by what Alicia Keys, Emma Watson or Taylor Swift have to recommend, but there's an ocean of teens who don't normally read and no matter what Obama or Bill Gates recommend they'll not get into reading unless they see a book recommendations from one of their pop gods.

Thank you, it's built on react and node.

Trump never read most of the books you listed. Please fix that. Specially those written in '19 '20

We don't usually include recommendations that look more like a promotion than a recommendation, but he does explicitly recommend most of these books and it wouldn't be fair for us to decide which ones he actually did read.

To be honest, I loaded the page, saw "what books Trump reads" and gave up on the site right there.

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