Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to EmberReads
Find romance books by trope, spice, and content warnings
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi everyone, For the past couple months I've been working on a website with two main features: - https://book.sv - put in a list of books and get recommendations on what to read next from a model trained on over a billion reviews - https://book.sv/intersect - put in a list of books and find the users on Goodreads who have read them all (if you don't want to be included in these results, you can opt-out here: https://book.sv/remove-my-data) Technical info available here: https://book.sv/how-it-works Note 1: If you only provide one or two…
Nov 2025 · book.sv · its alternatives →
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What if books had dating profiles? Find yours.
Mar 2026 · sortbycravings.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I noticed that I often looked for new books, depending on my mood (e.g., if I'm feeling tired, I want to find books that'll help me fix that and improve my sleep). So, I created my 1st indie project, BooksByMood. BooksByMood will help you find your next read based on your mood w/ - Books averaging 4.09/5 on Goodreads - Each book comes with an explanation of why it's selected for your mood - 18 moods to explore I hope you'll enjoy using the website, Cheers!
2024 · booksbymood.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that book/author. Try it here: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025 This goes wide and doesn't try to limit itself to the genre, so you get some interesting results. What do you think? Background: I want better recommendations based on my reading history. I'm incredibly frustrated with what is out there. This system is based on 5,000 readers voting on their 3 favorite reads…
Dec 2025 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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Find books by feelings & tropes, not just boring genres.
Jul 2026 · seitengefuehl.app · its alternatives →
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EmoLibro▲92Get top book picks, for your mood, for the present
2023 · squidandfish.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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FindReads▲10I’ve always felt that most book recommendation engines are shallow, they either use tags or “people also liked” data. I wanted something that actually understands what you mean when you say “slow burn sci-fi with emotional depth” or “books like Harry Potter.” So I built FindReads . It uses GPT to interpret your prompt, queries for books, and returns real titles that fit the vibe. Stack: Next.js, OpenAI API, MongoDB, deployed on Vercel. It’s still a work in progress — the results are surprisingly good for some moods, weird for others, but I’d love feedback from the HN crowd on how you’d…
2025 · findreads.app · its alternatives →
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A directory of books every designer should read and why 🎨
2018 · readinglist.design · its alternatives →
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No shame for enjoying romance novels
2024 · fourletterfancies.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, creator here :) I launched Shepherd.com on a Show HN in April 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660), and it has come a long way. My goal with Shepherd is to create an experience that feels like wandering your local bookstore, along with little notes from authors & experts sharing why each book is one of their all-time favorites. For 2023, I surveyed 1,200+ authors to get their three favorite reads of the year. Then I crunched that data and broke it by genre, age range, and when it was published. Publisher data is a nightmare, so some of the genres are…
2023 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · idreambooks.com · its alternatives →
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Fika▲133A Kindle-like reading experience for the web
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · topfantasyreads.com · its alternatives →
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Meet New Books▲105Discover books based on your favorites
2023 · meetnewbooks.com · its alternatives →
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A Guide to Monogamy, Polyamory, and Open Relationships
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Read Fast▲140Translate & condense books with same knowledge and style
2024 · read-fast.webflow.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · redditfavorites.com · its alternatives →
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pipeRead▲102Hi HN, Piperead is a free web tool that uses AI to act as a personalized librarian. Instead of just genre tags, we use specific "personas" to generate recommendations. The goal was to make something simple, fast, and free. Because we achieved to keep minimum cost. The site is live at https://piperead.com We are trying to fine-tune the recommendation quality. Feedback on the UX and the recommendation relevance is very welcome.
Dec 2025 · piperead.com · its alternatives →
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