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Would you use 'Hacker News for books'?

I had pretty successful topic about books the other day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309671

And my mind just can't stop thinking about project 'Hacker News for books'. I know that reddit has r/books, but I would like to have a clean UI/UX like HN.

Whare are your thougts?

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HN's UX depends heavily on quality moderation that persists over the long term, thereby encouraging the thoughtful discussion to become the norm.

A single-category site about books is also not necessarily going to attract the same breadth of voices as HN can.

I wouldn't read too much into the success of that one thread, but 20 years after "if you like this you might like that because" systems first appeared for movies, music, books, I personally remain frustrated that...this is still not an effectively solved problem. I continue to need human curators- Tyler Cowen being an astonishing prolific source for both books and music, but people I follow on Twitter before its implosion being a solid source as well- and/or to actually read/listen to a good sample myself, which takes professional level time and attention, which I cannot devote to a leisure activity. A chatgpt like dialogue- I liked x, y aspects of z content, suggest one to me, etc- seems achievable now. Cheers.

For your reference: https://hackernewsbooks.com/

I saw that, but it doesn't provide info about what other are suggesting at first glance

I want an up to date version of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

there's also this, which I just found: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GiEdQ79EDMjggtBKf/best-non-t...

The first question I have is: how is it different from goodreads?

Interface, GR is too cluttered

I like the idea, but what's going to stop it from devolving into the lowest common denominator like r/books did years ago?

Visit /r/books using old.reddit.com

Yeah, but again, you have to go to reddit to find topics about books, and there is a ton of other things there as well, like irrelevant ads, distractions, etc. I would love to have a clean UI

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