Inverse recommendations
Posted on:: November 18th, 2006
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]
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