Book Recommendation Filter by Series

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Book Recommendation Filter by Series

1aethercowboy
Oct 19, 2024, 10:26 am

As a reader, I like to explore new books through the recommendations. However it's also nice to revisit series I've started. It would be nice if we could apply a filter to the book recommendations to show only ones in the series we've already read.

2gilroy
Oct 19, 2024, 2:19 pm

Well, there is a filter for only my authors. And if you've added a tag for the series, you can reduce it down by tag. So in a way, that filter partially exists already

3paradoxosalpha
Oct 19, 2024, 2:33 pm

I can imagine an LT tool that seems simple and algorithmic to my non-coder, non-DBA mentality:

For all the books in my catalog that are associated with series, LT could identify the first subsequent series item that I haven't cataloged and aggregate these into a sort of "what's next?" report.

4aethercowboy
Oct 22, 2024, 10:36 am

>2 gilroy: I thought about that, but I also have series with different authors.

>3 paradoxosalpha: I'd like that too. I know LT has a page to show all my series, but I'd like to prioritize the list by what I'd be most likely to like most.

5reading_fox
Edited: Oct 23, 2024, 6:46 am

>3 paradoxosalpha: >4 aethercowboy: ooh that sounds fun.

It would have to have filters at the very least to in/exclude Publisher's series and Core and as a Pony it would probably also need the ever promised 'Contains' feature so that trilogies and omnibuses work properly. As a sparkly Unicorn feature it would allow some degree of my Star rating filter too!

I currently have 782 Series Most of which are either Publishers or as complete as I intend to read, but I know I have many that have outstanding or new titles that don't cross my radar. There's just too much information on the series page for me to usefully use it.