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This immediately caught my attention. I wouldn't say I'm a book lover (at this very moment). Rather, I used to be a veracious book reader, but then life, social media and the Internet got in the way. I'm lucky if I read one full length novel per year now. I regret that and have been actively wanting to regain my former interest/habit. Your site could help. But here's what I was expecting/hoping to find when I clicked through...something that would help me discover new books. After looking at the first several posts, all I saw were non-fiction, business-focused books. Is there a way to hone in on fiction and specific sub-genres? If I can easily see what, for example, other people who like science fiction are reading right now and actively discussing, then I've got a starting point. Further, I know where to go back to when I pick up that book and want to share my own thoughts.

I really like the premise/idea as whole. Good luck.

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I'm curious if you've tried Goodreads? It has both personalized recommendations and tons of lists, as well as social aspects that you can choose to use or ignore. Not exactly the same as Pageturner, which looks interesting, but it's definitely been a part of helping me get back into reading.

I haven't, but will likely give it a try when I get back on the reading (books) horse. I wish it weren't owned by Amazon. de-FAANGing is too hard!

If you want a great recommendation engine for books, check out https://abooklikefoo.com/

Also, but for music and tv as well as books, https://tastedive.com/ has always suggested some interesting stuff.

Check out The StoryGraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/)! Is not Amazon-owned, and while it's not built to be a Goodreads replacement per se, it's been super helpful for discovering new reads and I like the review/tagging system better than GR.

Thank you :)

This is my plan for the future actually, to filter your feed to genres/people/books you subscribe to. But until today, only 2 people have been actively using it (as you might have seen), and we happen to read a lot of business books. But I'll integrate this feature when there's a greater diversity of posts (which you can contribute to ;))

I love your idea, and this is something I can see myself using (and very well might!). What would really be the killer feature for me would be something that would let me view a collection of discussion about a specific book I'm reading (ie: view all posts about Tractatus). That, and the filter by genre feature.

You can already, each book has it's own discussion feed at joinpageturner.com/b/isbn13ofthebookhere

You can also find it via joinpageturner.com/search

But as there still aren't too many posts, you probably won't see other people talking about it yet. But you can totally get your friends to join Pageturner and read the book you're reading and have a discussion there.

The filter function is going to include books you've read, saved and genres you're interested in.

This is basically a chicken and egg problem :/

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