Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber

Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by psychometry on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:01AM (#25406990)

I added a few of my favorite books (mostly 20th century lit) and depending on the set got mostly children's books or non-English books. Not terribly helpful.

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Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by hh3k0 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:09AM (#25407049)

I added Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West -- not because I like them but rather because I was curious what would come up as result --, it showed me mostly religious books as suggestion (He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart) and The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan.

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Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by felixarba on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:07AM (#25407501)

Had a similar experience, most of my recommendations are childrens books.

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Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by xmsam on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:16PM (#25409801)

Ditto here. Mostly children’s books.

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