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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks.com by rhizome on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @01:15PM (#2250844)
Search facets are likely the best and fastest filtering mechanism for the users. It's pretty much just a straight products site with some recommendation engine. Just start faceting out the books by a few criteria, topic, length, proficiency level, etc.
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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks.com by thibaut_barrere on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @01:39PM (#2250963)
One thing I'm considering is either solr facets or a structured auto-completion like soulmate [1].

What's your opinion on the later ?

[1] http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/announcing-soulmate-a-redis-bac...

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks.com by rhizome on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:02PM (#2251047)
The autocomplete is fancy, but it involves: a) typing; b) spelling; and c) using the arrow keys and the enter key. Facets will let you get to the same place in a few clicks. You can always do both, though.
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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks.com by thibaut_barrere on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:04PM (#2251057)
I'll give both a try in my labs. Thanks!
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