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I actually forgot about my storygraph account! So I checked out the buddy reads feature, it's a bit intimidating! It appears it recommends up to 6 random people. From what I'm getting, left column is people who might have similar interests to you, according to the ai, and they might not have that actual book on their list?? The right column seems to list people who may be interested in reading the book, like maybe it actually is on their to read list.

It's not clear to me how you would opt out of this if you didn't want people to ping you, or what happens when you reject an invite, which I assume you can. It's kinda weird to just invite complete strangers to read with you. Then there's the whole issue of do you (or they) reject or ignore if not interested, hoping that other person isn't going to freak out because you said no to their invite. I'm also not clear how you interact as a group and keep track. Is it just like those shut up and read kinda meetings?

I think it would be better to just post a book club and let people join? I dunno. I haven't found the whole virtual book club thing to work out very well. People get excited and then drop out. It's better in person.

It would be less nervewracking I think if there was some sort of community interaction already, where you could interact and realize you have similar interests and then decide to read as a group. I haven't used the site much, but it doesn't seem like you can interact much with other people, not as you would on an online community/forum.