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What authority is determining the "best" book for a topic?

What's your plan for adding entries for topics? I was expecting a "suggest a book" link, but that sort of assumes that "best" = "most popular" which may not be your criteria.

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My definition for "best" is the book that most experts in the field would recommend to their non-expert friends.

And where do you get that data from?

I think a very good way of doing this is putting a question on quora and picking out the most upvoted answers.

I second the question on how you define the "best" book.

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