[CALIBK12] websites of comparable books?

[Doyle_Tony]

The Destiny Quest recommendations are hard to figure out.  The titles are all over the map.  The only thing I can figure is that it looks at titles checked out by other patrons who have read the book, sort of like Amazon's "customers also purchased" feature.  For the samples I looked at about half of the recommendations were good and half were completely unrelated to the title.  It would be interesting to know how they are actually generated.  Unfortunately the Follett web site and the Destiny online help give no hints.

Tony

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Livingston High School
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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Connie Williams [chwms at mac.com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 6:28 PM
To: Judy Egan
Cc: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu; Lea VanDiepen
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] websites of comparable books?

Destiny's new interface Destiny Quest has this feature - it lists books in your collection as a 'you may also like'.  It's not completely populated yet, but it does show up on some.
Connie

On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Judy Egan wrote:


A teacher of mine is looking for websites that recommends books.  We’re looking for a site where you can type in a title and they can tell you titles of books that you may like based on the title you typed in.  (Similar to the Netflix way of recommending movies “if you liked ____, you may also like ____”).  Any suggestions?



Connie Williams

Teacher Librarian / National Board Certified

Petaluma High School

200 Fair Street

Petaluma, CA 94952

707-778-4662

chwms at mac.com<mailto:chwms at mac.com>