pointing out the obvious

I’ll have to agree with Stephen Landau when he suggests using the lending information libraries have to get a better feeling for the book, and get further book recommendations. Bookmooch and LibraryThing aim to accomplish this in some way or another, as do most online book retailers such as Indigo. I guess the difference is credibility? What exactly makes a recommendation credible?

Is it having a name behind the recommendation? Knowing that you can (but won’t) reach out and contact the recommender? Maybe it’s the illusion of seeing a regular person’s impressions of a book, as opposed to the Amazon style semi-professional book reviewer. hmm…

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I’m going to sleep on this.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 9:20 am and is filed under ideas, usability, technology.