Recommendations

From MoochWiki

Recommendations are built using this formula

1) find all the books you've previously mooched, or have on your wishlist or save for later

2) for each of those books, see what other books are recommended to people who like that book

3) total up all the recommendations, and sort them by frequency (ie, the books most often recommended show up first)

4) hide recommended books that are not available for mooching

5) optionally hide books you click the "hide" button on

6) automatically mark as gray/italic any recommended books you've mooched, given away or have in your inventory or wishlist, so you can easily visually skip them

When you first use the recommendations, it will tend to give you best-sellers as the top recommendations, because that's what everyone else is also reading. If you like best-sellers, great! If you don't, no problem, just click "hide" on the books you don't want to see, and they'll be hidden from your recommendations forever (in the future, BookMooch will have a feature where you can unhide recommendations you've suppressed).

Your recommendations are saved (cached) in the system for 24 hours, so they will not change for 24 hours even if you add/remove books to your wishlist. This is done so that paging next/previous through the recommendations is quick.

A maximum of 500 total recommendations are built.