Thank you for mentioning us! To clarify about the personalized recommendations: when you import your books from Goodreads to MeetNewBooks, we carry over your ratings, so you won't need to rate your books again. If you have a large collection, it may take a few minutes for the personalized recommendations to update. Additionally, we organize recommendations by shelves, so if you have separate shelves for fantasy, romance, fiction, or non-fiction, we'll generate recommendations for those too.
Yep! Don't worry, I did all that. It was the quality of those resulting recommendations that I was disappointed in. The recommendations were a lot of popular books, similar to/based on many of the books that I had rated three stars. If I wanted popular books related to books I already thought were mediocre, I could just find those anywhere 😉
@@ChloeFrizzle Gotcha! We tweak our recommendation engine to balance between giving a wider range of options and offering closer matches, even if it means fewer suggestions. This trade-off can lead to different results based on what someone has already read. Thanks again for the mention 😊
Awesome vid and thanks so much for the shout out! I’m amazed at that graph you put together with GR average ratings vs your own and finding that cut off where you likely won’t find 5-star reads for you. Never heard of those sites, and Gnooks and Literature Map both seem cool! Before I started watching Booktube it was a struggle to find new favorite reads, but ever since diving in the tbr mountain has forever been rising higher before me-a great problem to have! Loved the energy and passion here 💪
Thanks for the shout out! I love how you separate books you really want to read from books that you've heard about and need to look into more. Mine usually all end up on the same shelf, but maybe I'll start doing something like that too! I thought the "genres" that appear on the book page on goodreads where the most popular shelves people have added it to, but I don't really know how those populate 😆 I'll have to check out the other booktubers too! ❤
The average Goodreads rating is something to consider, but there are some books where this just doesn’t work for me. Especially if it is a book that is much older than Goodreads. If the audience is far more into the contemporary books of the genre then sometimes, if it is a very old book, it almost would be more fair to consider it different genre altogether. A 2024 SF romance is a far cry From A Canticle For Lebowitz. For someone like me, who likes a little bit of old and a little bit of the new, I have to keep that in mind.
Thank you for mentioning us! To clarify about the personalized recommendations: when you import your books from Goodreads to MeetNewBooks, we carry over your ratings, so you won't need to rate your books again. If you have a large collection, it may take a few minutes for the personalized recommendations to update. Additionally, we organize recommendations by shelves, so if you have separate shelves for fantasy, romance, fiction, or non-fiction, we'll generate recommendations for those too.
Yep! Don't worry, I did all that. It was the quality of those resulting recommendations that I was disappointed in. The recommendations were a lot of popular books, similar to/based on many of the books that I had rated three stars. If I wanted popular books related to books I already thought were mediocre, I could just find those anywhere 😉
@@ChloeFrizzle Gotcha! We tweak our recommendation engine to balance between giving a wider range of options and offering closer matches, even if it means fewer suggestions. This trade-off can lead to different results based on what someone has already read. Thanks again for the mention 😊
Awesome vid and thanks so much for the shout out! I’m amazed at that graph you put together with GR average ratings vs your own and finding that cut off where you likely won’t find 5-star reads for you.
Never heard of those sites, and Gnooks and Literature Map both seem cool!
Before I started watching Booktube it was a struggle to find new favorite reads, but ever since diving in the tbr mountain has forever been rising higher before me-a great problem to have!
Loved the energy and passion here 💪
Thanks for your awesome channel too! Booktube is definitely a great place to get book recs
Thanks for the shout out! I love how you separate books you really want to read from books that you've heard about and need to look into more. Mine usually all end up on the same shelf, but maybe I'll start doing something like that too!
I thought the "genres" that appear on the book page on goodreads where the most popular shelves people have added it to, but I don't really know how those populate 😆
I'll have to check out the other booktubers too! ❤
I separated my Want To Read and On My Radar just this year and it's been revolutionary. Highly recommend
Thank you for the mention! Your advice for Goodreads is valuable, I often feel like it’s too complicated for me😂
Super useful video. I added a bunch of possible books to my list using the tips and moved up some to the top of my want to read pile.
Great advice!
The average Goodreads rating is something to consider, but there are some books where this just doesn’t work for me. Especially if it is a book that is much older than Goodreads. If the audience is far more into the contemporary books of the genre then sometimes, if it is a very old book, it almost would be more fair to consider it different genre altogether. A 2024 SF romance is a far cry From A Canticle For Lebowitz. For someone like me, who likes a little bit of old and a little bit of the new, I have to keep that in mind.
I'll use Gnooks for sure! Great discovery, Chloe. Thanks for the tip :D