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November 18, 2006

Inverse recommendations

Tim Spalding's LibraryThing has a really cool new feature: An unsuggester.

Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the seven million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. The unsuggestions come from LibraryThing data, not from Amazon. LibraryThing also produces great suggestions.>

Here are some of the results I generated:

Book

#1 Unsuggestion

New Oxford Annotated Bible

Guilty Pleasures

The Firm

A Thousand Plateaus

A thousand plateaus

Deception Point (Dan Brown)

Da Vinci Code

Lipstick Traces: A secret history of the twentieth century

The Long Tail

Les misérables

Slaughterhouse Five

Vogue Knitting on the Go: Socks Two

The New Our Bodies Ourselves

Good to great

Lies and the lying liars who tell them (Al Franken)

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian hedonist

Godless: The church of liberalism (ann coulter)

To the Lighthouse

America (the book) (Jon Stewart)

Systematic theology : an introduction to biblical doctrine

The unsuggestion for Cluetrain? King Lear. Ouch. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous librarything books]

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 18, 2006 01:40 PM


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