How did you discover the last book you read?
Apart from the book club, where do you get your book recommendations from? How do you decide what to read next? and of course the last book you read. How did you discover it?
Apart from the book club, where do you get your book recommendations from? How do you decide what to read next? and of course the last book you read. How did you discover it?
I'll start. Most of my recommendations I get from those I follow on twitter. I bookmark tweets about books I might want to read.
It's an imperfect system. Wondering what better way exist.
Hey Bill, my project Readlist.io is all about curating and discovering books. The idea is that influencers and normal people can create reading lists about books they've read, or curate lists of books that other people have recommended. Here are a couple popular lists on the site now.
Essential Reading List for Aspiring Indie Hackers https://readlist.io/dmathieu/essential-reading-list-for-aspiring-indie-hackers
VoiceFirst Revolution Essential Reading https://readlist.io/dmathieu/join-the-voicefirst-revolution-essential-reading-list
I hope that Readlist can become one of your sources for new books in the future!
Also, you're welcome to come on over and start creating your own lists (and getting paid by Amazon when people buy your recommendations)
-Daniel
Nice job with readlist Daniel. Right now it looks more like a list making site. You planning on adding any social aspects?
Yes, definitely. Right now mainly focusing on making the list creation process easy and intuitive, but social features like following, activity feed, notifications and liking/commenting are coming soon :D
Hey Daniel, are you currently working on this? What's on your roadmap?
Yup! I'm actively developing, creating content, and marketing.
As far as roadmap, I don't really have a formalized roadmap per se, just a lot of features that I'm working to add to help making lists easier, improving content discovery / recommendation, and onboarding. Basically I do whatever I think will drive the most value.
If you have any ideas feel free to message me here, on twitter, or email: daniel@readlist.io
Thanks!
I've found almost all good books from podcasts, interviews, or lists that other founders that I aspired to emulate published. Usually, it's a remark or a quote that makes me excited to read the book. And other founders often distill the main message (and audience) of a book when they talk about it, so it's a good way to avoid wasting reading the books that are addressed to VC-backed founders.
As I have amassed quite a few books over the past years, I have decided to list my favorites and review them at what I call "The Bootstrapper's Bookshelf" (at https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/bookshelf/ ) so that founders that are now in the position I was a few years ago can have a head start into the often overwhelmingly large world of startup books.
Podcasts. I started listening to Tom Bilyeu's youtube series called Impact theory. Found good reads from different guests on his show.
I usually just stop by the library and browse the new selections or the recommended picks.
I love libraries except when I'm on the road it would be nice to have some online version that offers the same benefits of the offline experience