B sends me a link to the opposite of all of those book recommender tools out there, the LibraryThing UnSuggester, which analyzes their database of people’s book collections and tells you what books you shouldn’t read if you like a particular book. More accurately, it tells you what books are least likely to be in the same collection with your selected book. I tried out two of my favorites from different genres, and while it was pretty accurate on its unsuggestions for Cryptonomicon, the list for Pride and Prejudice has a significant overlap with my collection, what with the Norvig AI/Lisp books, Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming collection (really, a must for any library) and other computing texts. How sad….
Glimpses of the websurfing habits of a computer science professor, obsessive crafter, occasional gamer, and all around geek