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September 16, 2006
Book Recommendation Engines
OK, I am trying to make a list of book recommendation engines. You know, the one's that are sort of 2.0 or socially driven...
Here's a few I know about:
BN BookBrowser
Inside a Dog (teens)
OCLC's FictionFinder
AllReaders.com
If I've missed a good one or an obvious one, let me know in the comments. Thanks.
And the next step is Film, Game, Music CD and DVD recommenders which include some of the same ones.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at September 16, 2006 9:57 PM
Comments
This project *screams* wiki to me....
Posted by: Jenny Levine at September 18, 2006 10:43 AM
What about Ebsco's NoveList? I guess it's not very 2.0, but neither is OCLC's Fiction Finder. NoveList is freely available online to many people who have a public library card. Disclosure: I write freelance articles for NoveList, so I'm not an entirely disinterested party, but I really do think it's better than a lot of the ones you've listed above. I'd be interested to see other people's thoughts on NoveList vs. these free services.
Posted by: Heather at September 18, 2006 12:20 PM
What about www.bookmooch.com. Its very new and lacks the books, but it'll reach a tipping point soon.
Posted by: les at September 20, 2006 6:05 AM
Libraries with marvelous-to-me readers advisory programs include the
St. Joseph County Public Library http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page
and the Waterboro Library (Maine) http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm
Again, these materials were formulated before the 2.0 phenomenon, but we use them all the time.
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com is also useful.
And _What Do I Read Next_, from Gale, complements NoveList.
Posted by: leslie kahn at October 6, 2006 9:56 AM
Great list! I hope you don't mind if I try incorporating some of them into my Rollyo Readalike test site...
Posted by: Marlise at October 25, 2006 10:30 AM
God help us! Wiki formatting is the death of anything serious -- the triumph of free time over serious or truly informed.
Posted by: C at July 28, 2007 9:39 AM
I found Springfield City Library's guide by accident (http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/reading/booklist.html) and it seems remarkably comprehensive although it is a series of static pages not a database...
Posted by: David Brake at December 10, 2007 6:16 AM
This is a bit of a self-promotion, since I work with BookLamp, but BookLamp.org is a new-comer that analyzes the full-text of a book for stylistic trends, and finds matching books based on the results. Very much like Pandora.com, but for books (that's the quickest way to describe it).
Anyway, it's worth at least checking out, I think:
http://booklamp.org
Posted by: Aaron at March 15, 2008 3:08 AM
www.shelfari.com
and
www.bookrabbit.com
are great ones.
Posted by: Laura at July 14, 2008 2:16 AM
