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Goodreads doesn't let you sort books by rating so making a tool that does:

book-filter.com


Goodreads is Amazon so its ratings are suspect, like everything else on Amazon.

It would make a ton of sense to have a third party rating and review site with some kind of dependable reputation for posters. You could still affiliate link to books for site revenue.


I'm confused. Goodreads does in fact let you sort books by rating?


Any feedback much appreciated!


Where are you getting your list of genres from? It looks like you are missing many of the ones supported by goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/genres Not to mention all the ones people create by creating shelves.

I'd suggest lowering the default for number of ratings from 50k to something like 4k, so you'll pick up relatively newer books that are popular but don't have a lot of ratings yet.


The genres are limited to the most popular ones at the moment. The slider is also adjustable, but the default is set to 50k to show relatively well-known books at first sight.


Haha thanks! I've had to build my own custom scrapers unfortunately. It's unfortunate that they haven't implemented something so basic yet...


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