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It resulted in detailing their gift cards, ways to order through them and if you couldn't order anything - a way to increase their social media following.
I took the spreadsheet and a friend proficient in Glide apps, converted it to an app.
This app now has listings of 800 bookstores in 21 countries. I am looking for feedback on how to improve the app, what elements would you add to it and what information is redundant for you?
The ban, they say, will be finalized in 2025, when all farms in the country will be shut down. It’s unclear, at the moment, how this will affect the sale of fur (whether Norway intends simply to stop producing it).
Norway is a large fur producer with over 300 fur farms, with farms breeding and killing over 700,000 minks and 110,000 foxes every year — simply for their fur. They’re far from the largest manufacturer (that’d be China) but they aren’t the smallest either.
I've collated the ones with interesting reasons for reading them here --> http://shelfjoy.com/sia_steel/books-hn-wished-they-had-read-...
http://shelfjoy.com/sia_steel/non-technology-books-that-have...
Currently noting down the ones on this thread.
I've seen this mentioned a lot of times on various forums. GoodReads by design doesn't look as good as any other social service we use now. But I am curious, whether that can be something an incumbent service can work on.
Providing great design and with GoodReads functionality, would that work for the new service?
Affiliate is just working enough for me to pay the server bills (less than 100 USD). So here's the thing I'm noticing about Affiliate commissions - currently, the only way to get decent commissions is to have a lot of shelves that are popular. Its just 3 months of launch and due to lack of aggressive marketing of any kind, most of the shelves are just sitting there.
The ones that get popular are converting well. I still need to figure out if this can be made mainstream by chance.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Reddit for books would definitely be more relatable to people on HN :)
You've suggested some serious interesting things.
Like giving the link to other shelves on which a book is. I currently don't have a book view because the site itself is very new and I want to validate if people really like the proposition as such. But this information can be integrated in the current shelf model too. I'm thinking something at the bottom of a shelf where the reader gets to see the other shelves that contain the same books.
Hearting of a shelf and the share on the right is indeed confusing people. Will do something about it sooner than later.
Thank you again for taking out the time to write your feedback :)
However, by putting the title of Alan Kay's reading list as present tense too, I've muddled it up.
You're right. There are tons of lists that are curated from varied sources, some from authors' websites, some from university reading lists etc. Currently, I didn't have a specific section where I could mention the attribution links, but I think it'll be wrong to continue without it.
I'll work on it right away to integrate a section like that. Till that is done, I'll make sure there is grammatical distinction between both.
Thanks a lot. This was valuable.
I've been working on ShelfJoy for quite sometime now. I've thought of ShelfJoy to be like buzzfeed for books where people can discover curated books on deep niche topics.
Curation is guided by algorithms in a few cases but finalised by an editor.
Wanted to know your feedback on this. If you think it works for you or not and what can I do to improve it.
Thanks in advance.
And if a lot of people are interested in that (and people are interested), that's a lot of work for a lot of people.
That's what I've tried to reduce here.
There are means of achieving reading without any reading too. Have you tried audio books? I haven't, my mind drifts too much in audio books, but some friends swear by them.
and this is why I have done the compilation.
This has turned out to be an amazing thread. While the first 50 books were something I was expecting, Selfish Gene, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy et all, the suggestions went interesting as I kept scrolling. In the spirit of all things books, I've compiled the answers into a list (You were expecting someone to do this, weren't you?) Since, I've done this manually, this is what I've included. 1. Have only included the first level comments and the books mentioned in them. This means the comments that said, if you liked this, you'll also like this aren't included. 2. Have included books from comments that have provided good answers to the 'why'. Haven't included just book mentions without explanations of why that has been the most influential book. Which book is mentioned most? Haven't counted, but I think it is Selfish Gene and the Bhagwat Gita! And here is the list --> You guys can go ahead and add these to your reading list.
In the spirit of all things books, I've compiled the answers into a list (You were expecting someone to do this, weren't you?)
Since, I've done this manually, this is what I've included.
1. Have only included the first level comments and the books mentioned in them.
This means the comments that said, if you liked this, you'll also like this aren't included.
2. Have included books from comments that have provided good answers to the 'why'.
Haven't included just book mentions without explanations of why that has been the most influential book.
Which book is mentioned most?
Haven't counted, but I think it is Selfish Gene and the Bhagwat Gita!
And here is the list --> You guys can go ahead and add these to your reading list.
http://shelfjoy.com/sia_steel/non-technology-books-that-have...
Why this unexpected announcement?
I thought that this post was flagged because of something I did. Didn't realise that the flag was because of a nasty comment on Aaron. Feels bad to let that take away our HN #2 glory though :(
Another time!
I made this because time and again, I found myself getting drawn to the choice of his books and wanted to get all of them in a single page.
Any such list will not make me any more than a few tens of dollars so the amount is so minuscule that it makes all the effort of manually adding all these books, quite laughable.
Sometime back, I thought of reading through his entire blog and came across his year-end reading lists wherein he would list anywhere from 70-140 books read in that particular year.
Because all these books were linked to books.theinfo.org (which is not alive), I decided to put it into a shelf where I could add them to my reading list and access them directly.
This is my very small attempt at spreading the sheer magic of Aaron's curiosity.
Currently, I have been able to add books from 2006, 06, 08 and 10. Its a work-in-progress.