this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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It gives you book recommendations based on ✨vibes. ✨ You enter a search query like "funny scifi" and it returns a list of (hopefully!) good recommendations.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a neat idea, but seems limited. Returns the same results each search.

For example: funny sci-fi fails to return Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but does include "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" which is the polar opposite of funny.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just tried it. I put in the title of some caveman smut book and it gave me back a Ben Shapiro book on mammoth cloning, the other books in that caveman smut book series, and a book about a guy with a cybernetic eye.

It might need a little bit of work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A quick search for dark fantasy gave my a bunch of books with "dark" in the title, and many of them were Dark Tower ones

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although dark tower is a bit dark, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard it is, haven't got to it yet. But I meant that it should give only one result for dark tower, not dark tower #1, dt #2, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I've only read the first one myself. You did bring up a valid issue with the search function, I was just joking around :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting idea!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried a bunch of different searches and most were awful…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh ... nice to see this here. It's made by vicki boykis, who is sometimes active over on mastodon: https://jawns.club/@vicki