Sneaky weekly post, as I didn’t see a new sticky post for the week. :3

Check out the community bingo post for 2026, it’s a genuinely fun way to navigate your reading, and it’s accompanying recommendations post. Happy reading and spooky season! 🎃👻📖

  • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I just read a lot. On pace for 130 books this year.

    Discovery is hard… I was tinkering with an app

    A personalized book radar that continuously surfaces new and forthcoming books from publishers, critics, awards, and reader communities before they become obvious or popular. It helps you filter that broad stream into books worth investigating without trapping you in a taste bubble or relying on generic bestseller lists.

    Unfortunately, publishers really don’t make their catalogues readily available to the public. You have to be a bookshop or library or known reviewer. Huge pain. Edelweiss does have some data you can use that’s cross-publisher, but it’s not an API.

    I just want a place that is not the most popular books. Like, I really enjoyed the Dungeon Crawler Carl series… but it’s been top of the lists for over a year. Sigh

    • Aralakh@lemmy.caOP
      1·
      22 days ago

      Ah I see, that is an incredible reading volume – putting my number to shame haha. What’s your secrets? ಠ_ಠ

      Huh that’s fascinating, thanks for elucidating that part of the book world for me. I can only imagine being the first to discover titles, being bit of a skill combined with access to certain resources (like most things).

      • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Audiobooks on 2x and Always Be Reading haha.

        If I crack the secret to book discovery, I’ll let you know. There’s a real opportunity there, I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet

        • Aralakh@lemmy.caOP
          2·
          22 days ago

          Damn, when do you make the time to doom scroll then?! /s

          I look forward to hearing about any new insights you uncover about it, never something I’ve thought about as a potential problem space. I think that app idea might be the start of something, most solutions are usually things that you had troubles with yourself, clearly your in the mud of the space haha.