Re: [gutvol-d] [BP] The Future of eBooks

david starner said:

It does a pretty horrid job at that

hey, before i skip on out of here, i get to agree with david for once. the catalog just ain't gonna help someone know what kind of book they'd like to read. (and a marc record won't help them either.) that's a job that collaborative filtering will eventually do much better than anything you can do in the form of a catalog of any type. (and the collaborative filtering that amazon uses is absolutely primitive compared to what it could be.) just make e-texts. clean, consistent, clear e-texts. do that, and the rest will take care of itself... -bowerbird