Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord(odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
83 pointsby muggermuch8 hours ago11 comments
  • fouc5 hours ago
    Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends.

    This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level.

    • jandrese5 hours ago
      That makes more sense. I was thinking about the big box discount store Big Lots and my first thought was "they have a Discord?" followed by "they talk about books!?!".
      • pigeons24 minutes ago
        Yes I was hoping this was the case!
  • Qworg4 hours ago
    If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.
  • mmahemoff2 hours ago
    Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when you click on a book to open the modal, the cursor does mysteriously change to `pointer` - and stays that way wherever the cursor is.
    • phildenhoff2 hours ago
      I agree that it shouldn't mysteriously be a pointer all the time, but using a pointer for the cursor is a preference, not a standard. In native apps (outside the web), the cursor is often not turned into a pointer when hovering clickable content.
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  • navigate83103 hours ago
    I would like to understand how OP was able to successfully scrape various channels. I've been banned thrice doing this.
    • pixelmelt2 hours ago
      Discordchatexporter probably
  • ungreased06756 hours ago
    800 books? That seems too large of a list to be useful, even for the most voracious reader.
    • arvinsim38 minutes ago
      I agree. In my youth, I will just read anything that catches my fancy.

      Nowadays, I have to be picky about what books I read, even one amongst a pool of books that I like.

      That or I have to reduce my time for my other hobbies.

    • rgreasons6 hours ago
      Good thing there are filters!
  • lukevp4 hours ago
    Where do you source the book covers from? Is there a library to look them up or something?
    • avtar3 hours ago
      Looks like books.google.com
  • dewey5 hours ago
    Does "recommended" just mean "mentioned" or is this curated?
    • goatsi4 hours ago
      It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.
    • Qworg4 hours ago
      Mentioned, but there's usually a discussion.
      • drysine20 minutes ago
        Does this includes "mentioned" as in "Don't read this book, it's full of errors"?
  • dash25 hours ago
    Who wrote the blurbs?
    • glaucon4 hours ago
      The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
  • stavros5 hours ago
    What's Odd Lots?
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