[ SECRET POST #5472 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5472 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hypothesis: the rating of a book (at least a genre book) on Goodreads is directly proportional to the percentage of that book's reviews left by people who received an advance copy of the book

[(Anonymous)]

How much is Goodreads (as a website) worth checking out? Does it truly have an effect on how much a book is pushed or not? I never check out Goodreads (maybe once for a rec list but never reviews). I guess you could call me part of the mainstream public because I try my best to avoid/I don't bother with book twitter or wherever else people have a bunch about books. And NYT bestseller list means shit to me too lol.

I tend to pick up books in the library (looks interesting) or recommended by friends or podcasts/other authors or blogs/the bibliography in a paper that come up during certain searched regarding a subject.

[(Anonymous)]

It's good as, effectively, a comprehensive database of books, including upcoming books.

I don't think reviews or ratings are at all useful. First, most ratings fall into a very narrow range - from about 3.7 to 4.1 - so it's hard to tell anything about the book from it. Second, most reviews are simply useless - no more or less than repeating the premise of the book, telling you what (if any) marginalized categories the author and characters in the book fall into, and saying that they liked it or not. Often this is because the reviewer receives advance copies and has to review the book because of that, but it doesn't make the review any more useful. Reviews that get heavily recommended (and the site will display reviews in order of upvotes) tend to be from reviewers with significant social media following, but this doesn't mean they're better; it mostly just means that they use a lot of gifs and big splashy emphatic language to convey the same information. Premise, marginalized categories, gif from Firefly, whether they liked it or not.