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Hi HN. I made this mostly for my own curiosity. Many of us end up reading books by or about people of specific genders. So it's interesting to find books that are outside that echo chamber but still mostly _inside_ the topical or affinity area we are most engaged in. Doing this, it helps us to each expand our reading while elevating underrepresented authors, topics and character-types in the books we read. For myself, I found it most interesting to find more female writers in the topic area of economics and technology, where I've experienced a high concentration of male writers. From the…
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2020 · mapfilterfold.com
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2017 · booknshelf.com
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I'm releasing BestSFBooks today: http://www.bestsfbooks.com I was inspired by this HN post from a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978027 BestSFBooks ranks science fiction/fantasy books according to how many awards they've won or been nominated for. I included all the big ones (Hugo, Nebula, etc.) and also more obscure awards that I like such as SF Site Editor's choice. Once I had all the awards in there it was easy to start creating a New Book list based on award winning authors. I could tell the app was working as soon as I saw the two book lists on the home page.…
2011
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I spent a lot of time going through the recent thread: Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432) so I made this website to browse through it later and get the books I want from Amazon. It gets the comments using the HN API, uses the Open AI API to extract book names, and then the Amazon API to find the book on Amazon.
2024 · hnbestbooks.pages.dev
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Hey Book Lovers! Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Biblio.com, your new social playground for everything books! Whether you're a voracious reader, budding author, or just someone who loves to explore new ideas through the written word, Bibliou has it all. With Bibliou, you can: Upload your own stories, novels, or poems and share them with the world Read an ever-growing library of books and writings by other users – discover hidden gems! Follow authors, readers, and creators whose content you love – build your literary network Create reading lists, leave reviews, and join discussions in…
2024 · bibliou.com
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The previous submission [1] didn't catch on, so re-trying with a less substantive title! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056
2024 · authorlens.com
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Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project that I've been working on the last few days that I finally finished last night: https://50books.org This is a simple site designed to track your reading list into 2015. My personal goal is to read 50 books this year, and I wanted to hold myself accountable. Major sites like Goodreads are great, but were too much of a social network for my personal taste; on the other hand, using a text file (which was my 2014 solution) was too difficult to track and share. I built https://50books.org using Sinatra, sqlite3 (via datamapper), and…
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People already come to Claude before buying a book. They ask what to read, whether a book is worth starting etc. With coffeetable installed(a claude connector) Claude can now bring you few pages right inside the chat. What better way to decide you like a book than actually read a few pages Also I recommend everyone ask Claude. "Based on everything you know about me, what are some books I must read"
12d ago · claude.ai
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Toasted tells you how gender-specific the tone of your writing is. By following its suggestions, you can tune your writing to better engage with male or female readers. https://www.isittoasted.com/
2018
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Last year, I was running an independent marketplace for ebooks (similar to Smashwords), which failed. After its demise, we took a long look at ebooks and decided rather than competing with Amazon and iTunes, we should focus on solving a more pressing problem most authors face: how to get their books noticed in the first place. The result is BookHunch, which is an attempt to mobilize people via social media to read, review, and create buzz about a given book. That's the quick summary, but there's a more detailed history on my blog, as well as a preview article on the Digital Reader blog. We…
2011
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Ankit Ranka and I built this for ourselves and it was kind of useful, so we decided to package it up and see if others find it useful too. Ankit is an avid reader, but never new what book to read on the weekend. I'm always trying to find a new movie on Friday night to unwind. I usually end up spending 30-45 minutes looking for a movie, and by the time I find one I don't feel like watching a movie anymore! We built ScoutFeed to monitor our Twitter feeds and help us find books and movies that people we follow tweet about. It turns out people recommend apps and songs on twitter too, so we…
2012 · scoutfeed.sherlabs.com
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Hi HN, Over past few months, some of us had been collecting links to learning resources (courses, interactive explorables, books, podcasts, apps, forums, livestreams etc) in a GitHub repository of markdown files. Since we also wanted to have features like advanced search ("Show me podcasts on machine learning which are entertaining and less than 40 minutes long"), we felt the need for an app. Give it a try: https://learnawesome.org You can think of LearnAwesome.org as a GoodReads-equivalent tool generalized to links to ALL media (not just books). Some features you might like: -…
2019
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If someone here reads on Medium a lot, this might be useful for you: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mediumship This is my second browser extension and it's open-source. It lets you read all Medium stories for free. Hugs and / or bugs welcome!
2019
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I'm thrilled to share something I've been working on for the past year. We built your dream tool for turning the idea you wished could be a book into a book - we call it Omniscience. It goes from a single prompt to a high-quality, cover-to-cover novel or non-fiction book. You can sample our non-fiction by reading Revolutionizing Life Design (https://t.co/zfdBALBkNw) and Unhinged Genius (https://t.co/JVNXAJAqsE) or our fiction by reading Omni Genesis. https://t.co/5WSQ3jsaA5 Plenty of other great works are available in the library, and you can…
2023 · twitter.com
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I’m specifically looking for a tool a user shared on here that facilitated writing for content by scrolling up and disappearing text as new text was inputted. I believe it was a HTML/JSS only solution - a small personal project. I’ve done a lot of focused searches, but haven’t been able to find this comment. That said, I love these sorts of projects. I know they’re a self-indulgence and often a distraction. I’m celebrating that for a moment, personally. Please share your favorites writing tools, the smaller and more personal the better.
2021
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