I have historically had a hard time using goodreads for recommendations. It seems that everyone has at least 100 books or so with 5 stars, which strikes me as far too much, I feel like I want a category in goodreads that’s beyond 5 stars, or something like that. Interested in tips from other people on how to make use of goodreads as a recommendation tool.
I spent a number of my teenage years aggregating online recommendations I found into lists. If you’re looking for my ‘extra category that’s beyond five stars’ I made a “worldview Shaping list’ with 11 books.
The advantage of goodread is that if you have enough friends with decent judgement you can get opinion from multiple friends. For me it’s a matter of having views from multiple people.
Whenever I get any book recommendation and think about whether or not to engage more with the book I go to goodread to see what friends have to say about the book.
I haven’t had much success using goodreads as a recommendation tool. All of the best book recommendations I’ve gotten I got in person. (I wish I was better at using goodreads to recommend things to other people but for some reason I hate using it.)
I have historically had a hard time using goodreads for recommendations. It seems that everyone has at least 100 books or so with 5 stars, which strikes me as far too much, I feel like I want a category in goodreads that’s beyond 5 stars, or something like that. Interested in tips from other people on how to make use of goodreads as a recommendation tool.
I spent a number of my teenage years aggregating online recommendations I found into lists. If you’re looking for my ‘extra category that’s beyond five stars’ I made a “worldview Shaping list’ with 11 books.
The advantage of goodread is that if you have enough friends with decent judgement you can get opinion from multiple friends. For me it’s a matter of having views from multiple people.
Whenever I get any book recommendation and think about whether or not to engage more with the book I go to goodread to see what friends have to say about the book.
I haven’t had much success using goodreads as a recommendation tool. All of the best book recommendations I’ve gotten I got in person. (I wish I was better at using goodreads to recommend things to other people but for some reason I hate using it.)