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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Its interesting, that many of the subjects (history, science fiction, etc.) that I have a lot of made it, but there was somehow NO romance, which you read a ton of.
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Yes, that's interesting! I tried suggestions with me and only one other user, and refreshed several times. I got no romance suggestions for you or desertway, but in the suggestions for me and jswolf, I got a couple SFF romances/romance-adjacent:
Kit Rocha: Deal with the devil
C.M. Caplan: The Sword in the Street
About the non-fiction: The help text for creating buddy reads says:
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Who would you like to do a buddy read with?
Enter their usernames in the box below and we'll suggest books that we think the group will love.
Each person needs to have at least one book on their To-Read Pile.
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so the machine learning is looking at our to-read-piles instead of (or in addition to?) our reading history. At first glance, that seems reasonable, but I tend to be more ambitious when planning what future me should read than when deciding what current me is going to read
So I have a lot more non-fiction books and heavy-ish books in my to-read-pile than in my reading history.
Also, when I abandon a book because it is too heavy for my current mood, I put it back in my to-read-pile. Victor LaValle's The Devil in Silver is one of those -- well written, but dark and depressing, which I'm not often in the mood for.
I guess I should suggest that they use reading history instead for the buddy read suggestions. Unless I'm atypical in being overly ambitious on behalf of future me...