123reads.com Like goodreads. But better.
Find books recommended by the world’s smartest minds
What it does
The impartial alternative to Goodreads. 📚 Use AI to find your next favorite 123reads.com is the AI-powered alternative to Goodreads for readers who want better book recommendations. Instead of relying only on popularity and Amazon-driven suggestions, 123reads helps you discover books through curated recommendations from great thinkers, founders, investors, scientists, and creators. Search, explore themed reading lists, and use AI to find your next favorite book faster.book.
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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…
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Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting. So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph. We also felt like…
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