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Originally Posted by dottedmag
I use "personalized recomendations" system on (russian) site http://fantlab.ru/ - it has a system of predicting your rating for the books you did not read based on your current ratings for books and others' ratings. |
I use those systems too, and they are useful, but the problem is that they will keep showing you books that are similar to the ones you've been reading. You can end up running in a circle rather fast: you buy more similar books because they were recommended, and the system will keep proposing the same kind of book, which you buy...
A few months ago I was visiting Librarything to add a book that I had just finished (and found rather interesting). I noticed the "will you like it?" button and tried it, and Librarything told me that I would absolutely, definitely and without a doubt hate that book. Just because it was different from what I had been adding to my library on that site
