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Was just shown a new app for ranking books you like against each other using an Elo system, BookSorted. (www.booksorted.app)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by to c/books@lemmy.world
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Had some fun playing around with it tonight. You don't need an account, and can just add books manually if you want.

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[–] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Looks like you can't download the app and analyze your data locally. You have to give this website your data and preferences instead.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Arpad Elo was a guy

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    [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    This thing needs to be able to access my reading history directly from my brain, or preferably even some outside backup I'm not aware of. I love the idea, loved Movielens back in the day before I lost my login and couldn't repopulate the database. Just listing even close to everything I've read from memory and giving any sort of meaningful rating is an impossible ask.

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    [–] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Can someone give me the tl;dr for "ELO system" and how it applies to ranking books?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    Elo comes from chess, it was used to rank player skill against each other. You basically generate a score by comparing two at a time in head to head matchups.

    It's honestly not the best way to rank books (especially of different genres), but it was fun to goof around with for a bit!

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