Libib vs delicious library7/12/2023 Goodreads is more likely to expand your horizons, while LibraryThing is more likely to give you a sure thing. Winner: This really depends on your preference. Oddly, LibraryThing also offers “unsuggestions”- books that are the LEAST likely to show up in your library. You can also select “member recommendations” instead of LibraryThing recommendations, which suggested I read Sabriel (which I have read, and loved), some Neil Gaiman, some Hemingway I’ve never even heard of, and some Agatha Christie. Based on my existing catalogue, the site recommends four Dickens books I haven’t read yet, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Lord of the Flies, and some Henry James. LibraryThing– You don’t have to rate anything to get recommendations here. Er, what? You can also look up a book’s page and see “people who like this also like that.” The algorithm shows its face here- if I look for recommendations from my “read” shelf, I get The Lightning Thief, How They Were Found by Matt Bell (whom I’ve never heard of), two Raymond Carver books, and the Chicago Manual of Style. You have to rate at least 20 books in order to get recommendations (similar to how Netflix recommendations work). Goodreads– The site offers you recommendations based on your shelves. LibraryThing gives me a recent edition of the book, and then several editions published in 1936.īoth sites offer book recommendations based on your profile. For example, if I type in “gone with the wind 1936 edition” in both sites under “Add Books,” Goodreads gives me a no results error.
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