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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Right, I think we browse & buy books differently 
I tend to buy a bunch every 3-6 months, read them, then buy more.
Frankly browsing through 6000 titles to find a handful I may want seems incredibly... inelegant.
If they had a filter that said something along the lines of "only show titles with more than x reviews" that might work. But the only filter on ratings seems to be x stars or above - and for some reason huge numbers of books have only a single review of 5 stars 
Just in the list of 142 books you linked to - of the 19 rated books 18 of them are 4 stars and above making it a fairly useless metric. It gets worse looking for older books as all those single 5 star reviews are ranked above anything that doesn't only get 5 star reviews (Or to put it another way higher ranked than the lord of the rings trilogy with 9082 reviews averaging 4.6 stars) |
Ok so he narrowed it down to 18 books. Sounds like a good system to me. What exactly do you want?
Oh in cookbooks and the like, you can't trust a 4+star book. I have found hundreds of "fake" reviews there.