Margins

You've rated 340 books. Time you got recommendations that show it.

Margins imports your Goodreads or StoryGraph export and builds a taste profile on day one. Then you ask it for what you actually want, in a sentence, and every recommendation comes with the reason it fits.

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Margins

Bring your reading history.

Your export already contains everything.

goodreads_library_export.csv340 books
  • narrative non-fiction over analysis
  • rates thrillers generously, literary fiction harshly
  • reads two books at once, one audio
  • tends to give up on anything over 450 pages

    The two books you gave up on tell us more than the forty you finished.

Nothing to fill in. The ratings you have already given are the onboarding.

Every pick shows its reasoning.

Asked at 9:41pm. Answered in a sentence each.

“a business biography as entertaining as Shoe Dog, but under 300 pages”

Counter Service

Marguerite Vane

262 pp

You gave Shoe Dog five stars and you abandon anything past 450 pages. This is the same told-in-scenes register at 262.

The Long Weekend Company

Piers Oduya

288 pp

You gave The Goldfinch three stars and said it stalled in the middle. This one keeps moving because the whole book is one bad year.

outside what you asked for

Night Shift at the Grand

Ines Farrow

240 pp

Outside what you asked for. Not a business book at all, but it is the closest thing to Shoe Dog's voice you have not read.

The third one is not a business book and Margins says so. A librarian who only ever gives you what you asked for is a search box.

One sentence after each book.

Tell Margins what worked and what did not. Not a star rating, a sentence. The next recommendation is built on it, and you can see exactly which part of your profile changed.

The Quiet Ledger

Amira Sandoval

312 pp · finished

The narrator was the whole thing for me, and the last eighty pages of business history were a slog.

Profile updated. Two things changed.

  • rates thrillers generously, literary fiction harshly
  • rates thrillers generously, literary fiction harshly, unless the narrator is unreliable
  • wants a first-person voice, not a reported one

People who rate the way you rate.

Overlap is calculated on the books you both rated, not the books you both own. Follow them, or steal their shelf, which is what everyone does anyway.

J.M.87%

both rated five

  • Shoe Dog
  • Educated
  • The Secret History
R.A.81%

both rated five

  • Project Hail Mary
  • Shoe Dog
D.O.74%

both rated five

  • The Secret History
  • Educated

From here to reading it.

  • Bookshop.org
  • Kindle
  • Libby
  • Audible

Every recommendation links straight out. Libby first if your library has it, because free is a feature.

Counter Service

Marguerite Vane

262 pp

You gave Shoe Dog five stars and you abandon anything past 450 pages. This is the same told-in-scenes register at 262.

Picked because you gave Shoe Dog five stars and abandoned two books over 450 pages.

Import your export and ask it something.

One file, one question, and a recommendation you can argue with.

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