Group suggester?

Each group page has a weighted list of most commonly shared books. What about turning that around and suggesting groups to people, based on the books in their library? E.g., if you own Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, you may be interested in the Book Arts group.

I think there'd be a lot more participation in some of the smaller, subject-specific groups, if people could find them more easily.

That is a really cool idea!

It makes perfect sense. Good thinking.

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Good suggestion! Maybe there could be a weighted "groups" section on the work page and author pages, i.e. "groups with this book/author."

There are some great possibilities here...great idea!

I like it!

Maybe it could even filter down to the author or book pages...groups that share this book or author?

Super idea! It would get around the problem of not finding a group because its name doesn't include your search term. I never even knew there was a Book Arts group!

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Bump seconded.

Brilliant!

I'd actually be more interested in which books LT would recommend me based only on a specific group - wouldn't that help the suggester to make better recommendations?

Not necessarily. For many, it would have to heavily underweight the popular books like the Harry Potters. But it can't do that universally, since there are groups like Hogwarts Express, which are intended for people who like precisely that series.

Love it! Now why didn't I think of that?

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Yes, please! This could be helpful in preventing people from starting, essentially, duplicate groups.

Great idea--I'm trying to find people with my interests, but hardly anyone has even 10% of the books I've entered so far--but with some caveats.

1) I have a bunch of books I want to get rid of.

2) I have books that I'm keeping, but they're not central to my interests. Things like car manuals, gift books, childhood favorites, odd hobbies that don't interest me at the moment, books on finance and investing, some of my husband's books.... You get the idea.

3) I don't enter any crossword books, because I throw them out when I'm done with them, or I dislike them so much I never finish them.

I think a group-recommender would need to be more statistical in nature. You would need to have X books written by Y or about Z to trigger a recommendation.

Anybody want to play Scrabble?

Probably need another per-book checkbox: "don't use for recommendations"

I agree. Or a "weigh less for recommendations" box. (Wait, weren't the status checkboxes supposed to be a mini-step on the road to Collections?)

I believe that you are supposed to be able to mark any of your Collections as "don't use for recommendations".

When we get them, that is.