pointing out the obvious

I think bookmooch hit the nail on the head. For those of us who are looking for a particular book, don’t want to spend $22 and have a bookcase full of other $22 books collecting dust, this site will make your day. I’ve been a member for a while and am guilty of not actually doing a book transaction yet, but I’m in a bit of a reading rut.

Reading ruts are usually well solved by Indigo or Amazon’s “other people liked” recommendation engine. If that doesn’t work for you, LibraryThing aims to fill the void. While none are perfect, they give you helpful suggestions that end up pointing you in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this gets me all hot and bothered about the state of online personalization. It seems no one has an effective solution yet for recommendations, aka cross-selling. I could go on and on about this, so I’ll save the rant for another post.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 24th, 2007 at 2:55 pm and is filed under sustainability, business, interesting, community.