Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read?
I DO use LibraryThing to get most of my suggestions, but I don’t really use the formal recommendation tools. Yes, I looked at and played with the recommendation features when Tim updated them recently, but I didn’t actually use them to add any books to my wishlist.
The main way I find out about books I want to read? LibraryThing’s ‘Talk’. I like hearing what other people are reading, what they have enjoyed, what they just can’t stop talking about. Other than that, most of what I read comes from the ARCs I receive, followed by book club selections, Dear Reader emails, and the odd books I hear about here and there in my non-virtual life.
How do you find books you want to read?
I also mainly find book recommendations through “Talk”. The people on LT are its greatest resource really.
I’ve also nominated you for a blog award, here! I guess your blog is awesome enough for two of us to do it.
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I think that word of mouth will always trump what a computer can churn up and spit out. I’m going to check into the Dear Reader emails. I’ve never heard of that before.
BTW, I just signed up on blogher.com. Have you done that yet? It has the potential of being a great networking tool. I need to research the site a little more, but on the face there isn’t a books or literature specific section.
Congrats on the nuptials and hope you had a grand time!
I, like you, find out about books more by word of mouth (or fwap of the keys) than anything else. I’d rather pick up a book that I know people like it than some random bot’s say so.
I like the LT features but I do prefer getting recommendations from actual people – it makes the reco that much more interesting to hear another persons opinions!
Psst! I nominated you for a blog award, but I can see I wasn’t the first one.