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Thank you for the list. Can you walk us over how you did this? Maybe a post that goes into how this was done on 20.2k tweets, etc. Does that include replies as well? Does it include screen-shots of a book passage without a title?

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It's actually a pretty boring technology. The script looks for some keywords in the tweet (replies included), and then we manually go over the potential book recommendation tweets. It does not include screenshots. I removed "every" from the title here, since I can't be 100% sure this includes absolutely every recommendation.

Thanks for the work. Boring grunt work yields great results sometimes.

I wish there was a small version without descriptions. I want to see as many books as possible on my screen.

You can actually change the layout so you only see the titles and the covers. The button to change the layout is right above the list (note to self: make that more visible).

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