Comment by wtf242

That's super cool. I launched a book recommendations feature this year, which works vastly different. I ask users what their favorite books are(which you can rank), and then allow them to import their goodreads data which includes star reviews, and books they have read, then I determine your favorite style of books based on genres and subjects, then use opensearch to find similar books. It's a lot more complicated than that, but seems to work well. I'm always looking for ideas on how to improve this feature. Interested in what you are actually doing on the backend on the how-it-works page. thanks!

here's my recommendations feature: https://thegreatestbooks.org/recommendations

It's much more powerful if you're a member. you can restrict the results to certain genres or book lengths, as we as published date ranges, etc. If someone wants to try out the more powerful feature, DM me and i'll mark your account as a member.