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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

What HN thinks

Hacker News discovers it has read Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged and Angry Birds, and would like the counter to say "mentioned" please.

Nice, fast, but done before
Many praised the speed and idea, while others noted that similar HN book aggregators have come and gone, often dying once front-page traffic fades.
Mentions are not recommendations
Commenters flagged miscounts like Mein Kampf, Vanity Fair magazine and odd categories, and asked for real sentiment-based recommendations and better metadata.
Feature requests and spin-offs
People asked for more filters, trends, correction buttons and library availability, and pitched versions for movies, podcasts, music and tools.

Consensus: People like the site and its responsiveness, but agree the data needs cleaning so raw mention counts stop being presented as endorsements.

Recommended in the comments

Evergreen ILS (tool): Its API could let the site filter books by local library availability.
Permutation City (book): A commenter bought and read it because of HN mentions.
How to Lie with Statistics (book): Recommended as an influential probability and statistics read.
Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (book): Suggested as a missing gem that is not traditionally published.
Parable of the Sower (book): Recommended to counter the male-dominated top list.
The Invention of Morel ↗ (book): Noted as a frequently mentioned book the site had missed.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 12 hours ago.

Points: 1735
Comments: 283
Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-11-01 by roansh
Category: Culture society

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A University of Tennessee Libraries searchable database cataloging the roughly 20,000 books in novelist Cormac McCarthy's personal library, with annotation notes.

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