That makes more sense. I was thinking about the big box discount store Big Lots and my first thought was "they have a Discord?" followed by "they talk about books!?!".
If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.
Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when you click on a book to open the modal, the cursor does mysteriously change to `pointer` - and stays that way wherever the cursor is.
I agree that it shouldn't mysteriously be a pointer all the time, but using a pointer for the cursor is a preference, not a standard. In native apps (outside the web), the cursor is often not turned into a pointer when hovering clickable content.
It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.
The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends.
This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level.
That makes more sense. I was thinking about the big box discount store Big Lots and my first thought was "they have a Discord?" followed by "they talk about books!?!".
If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.
Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when you click on a book to open the modal, the cursor does mysteriously change to `pointer` - and stays that way wherever the cursor is.
I agree that it shouldn't mysteriously be a pointer all the time, but using a pointer for the cursor is a preference, not a standard. In native apps (outside the web), the cursor is often not turned into a pointer when hovering clickable content.
I would like to understand how OP was able to successfully scrape various channels. I've been banned thrice doing this.
Discordchatexporter probably
800 books? That seems too large of a list to be useful, even for the most voracious reader.
Good thing there are filters!
Where do you source the book covers from? Is there a library to look them up or something?
Looks like books.google.com
Does "recommended" just mean "mentioned" or is this curated?
It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.
Mentioned, but there's usually a discussion.
Who wrote the blurbs?
The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
What's Odd Lots?
It's a popular finance podcast. https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots
Ah, thank you.