Personal Tastes - Like Pandora?

[John Lavigne]

Pandora is nice in that it allows you to build a channel for it to start suggestion music.  It does this by looking at a number of things that you have said that you liked, and builds it from there (but you already know this...)

Are there plans to do something similar for this site?  I mean, will you eventually be able to save to your profile the books that you read, whether or not you enjoyed them, etc., so the site can build suggestions from your profile?


The other major suggestion that I have is, if you can work it into your deal with the publisher, to allow a preview of the first 20 pages so of each novel, so we can be the final judge of the content.  If you are planning on including short stories, this can probably be decreased to only the first 2 pages, or what not.

Good luck with this project!

[Daniel Bowen]

Taste-driven recommendations are precisely what we're shooting for.  We intend to use as much user info as possible so that you are certain to find a new book that you will not want to put down!  Our intention is to allow users to just show up and type a book/author/genre/etc. into a search bar and there you go, book recommendations.  So, that's probably fits the Pandora-like "station" analogy.

As for saving a profile of books that you've read, that is certainly a feature that users will have - and personal recommendations will be available to you based on your profile, or some subset.  We love what we do here, and I am entirely confident that that will be evident as we launch the Reader's Project, and the subsequent features that are developed for readers like yourself.

Keep in touch,
Dan