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Love the business idea. In theory, all the book scraping is automated through Twitter api and then compiled through Amazon API. The page basically self-assembles using Nextjs template and API data call. You get paid via referral purchases. It's genius.

Curious: where do you get high-resolution book images. I wanted to add those to my own book list (https://kirillzubovsky.com/bookshelf) and haven't found a source with high res.

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In reality tho, there's a lot of manual work involved haha. Thank you! I get the images from Amazon api https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/.

Oh interesting, I'll take a second look. Whatever Amazon API I checked was only returning pixelated thumbs. Good luck with the product. Next up is "How I made a million bucks reselling books" blog post ;)

hahah thank you! definitely check out their API, it's a bit messy, but works.

Btw, I tried the API and it works! There's a small caveat, for anyone who might trying it too.

If you have an active Affiliates account with Amazon, and you qualify for the API access, it won't be enabled even when you get your key-pair. The API will throw a generic error "Too many requests."

You have to go to >Contact Us< section of the affiliate program and ask them to enable your access.

Crazy idea, but it might work. Sometimes podcast guests recommend good books, and I happen to have hundreds of transcripts stored to some of the best podcasts (https://smashnotes.com). I don't expose full transcripts to public, as I've learned that almost no one actually reads them, but I could scan for book recommendations and send them your way.

That'd be super cool, sending you an email.

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