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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
authors dont have a rating. when you rate a book that rating applies to the book only. The rating that is used to color author icons in the tag browser is the average rating of the books by that author.
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Yes, I understand that. I hope that I included that in my question, What do you think about the rest of my question?
The whole concept of rating could actually be used to greatly amplify research capability without major rebuilding.
Code for scraping this data is all over the net, it's only 1 to 3 numbers.