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book recommendations
SHOW HN2021
55points
17comments
#803of 2,533 in 2021
Top 32%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Design: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast loading and well designed
From 1 comment
Kudos! Loads superfast and well designed. I am curious about how to build a site like this? Could you shed some light on the stack used (frontend/backend)? I couldn't find…
systemvoltage on HN
Weekly, monthly and yearly digests are useful
From 1 comment
This is great, really really like the sticky feature of weekly/monthly/yearly digests. I get most of my book recs from HN comments. Usually they are non-technical, anything from…
edmundsauto on HN
Objections
Only links to Amazon, no other retailers
From 1 comment
I wish you linked out to other retailers as well, besides Amazon. Perhaps something like boook.link would be useful.
Cenk on HN
Requests
Link to other retailers and book sources
From 3 comments
I wish you linked out to other retailers as well, besides Amazon. Perhaps something like boook.link would be useful.
Cenk on HNConsider linking to books at https://openlibrary.org (an Internet Archive project). If they’ve scanned the book, you can usually check it out with your Internet Archive account…
toomuchtodo on HNThere are plenty of self-published books on https://leanpub.com/ and https://gumroad.com/
asicsp on HN
Core versus non-core HN topic switch
From 1 comment
This is great, really really like the sticky feature of weekly/monthly/yearly digests. I get most of my book recs from HN comments. Usually they are non-technical, anything from…
edmundsauto on HN
Questions
How are books detected in comments without links
From 1 comment
First - thanks for building this! I'm curious - how do you detect a book mention if, the first time it's mentioned, there's no link to Amazon? Do you use spaCy for NER and then…
rahimnathwani on HN
How to sort results by comments or date
From 1 comment
Very nice. How do i sort the results by number of comments, date, etc?
superasn on HN
Alternatives named
hackernewsbooks.com
From 1 comment
When I was looking to fill my bookshelf with technical books last month, I stumbled upon https://hackernewsbooks.com, it helped me find a lot of good programming literature. The…
Rendello on HN