Five years of Ask.MeFi book suggestions from Human Relations and Work & Money
April 16, 2009 3:40 PM Subscribe
Ask.Metafilter is over 5 years old now, with volumes of suggestions and helpful ideas. philosophistry sorted through the years of posts categorized as Human Relations and Work & Money, and created ranked listings of the books people recommended the most often: Human Relations, Work & Money. Note that each little thumbs-up icon is a link back to the post which referred to the book in question.
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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a neat project but this is kind of inside baseball for the front page. -- cortex
This is a pretty cool project (despite the shameful anti-Powell's bias). That said, it seems like it would be better-suited to Metatalk than to the front page.
posted by dersins at 3:46 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by dersins at 3:46 PM on April 16, 2009
It's convenient, but the links use his amazon affiliate account, making it kind of spammy.
posted by stavrogin at 3:50 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by stavrogin at 3:50 PM on April 16, 2009
Dz'oh - they're his links? I didn't know what the affiliate account links looked like, and thought they were Metafilter affils. Flag and mark accordingly.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:55 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by filthy light thief at 3:55 PM on April 16, 2009
Right, but s/he didn't post it, and it's still a cool idea. Baby. Bathwater. etc. Nice post.
posted by leotrotsky at 3:59 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by leotrotsky at 3:59 PM on April 16, 2009
Also, I'd be curious to see what the most popular book recommendations are for all other subcategories as well.
posted by leotrotsky at 4:00 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by leotrotsky at 4:00 PM on April 16, 2009
It's convenient, but the links use his amazon affiliate account, making it kind of spammy.
In fairness, Matt transforms Amazon links on Metafilter to include Metafilter's affiliate account. There's no problem at all with that, so I don't think there's a major problem with philosophistry doing the same.
posted by matthewr at 4:08 PM on April 16, 2009
In fairness, Matt transforms Amazon links on Metafilter to include Metafilter's affiliate account. There's no problem at all with that, so I don't think there's a major problem with philosophistry doing the same.
posted by matthewr at 4:08 PM on April 16, 2009
Can anyone recommend a book to help keep me from reading self-help books?
posted by cmoj at 4:10 PM on April 16, 2009
posted by cmoj at 4:10 PM on April 16, 2009
Also, I'd be curious to see what the most popular book recommendations are for all other subcategories as well.
Well, I see "Codependent No More" linked about four times a week, but then I do lurk in the relationship questions for my own prurient reasons. "Being An Adult In Relationships" often pops up in those same threads.
posted by arcanecrowbar at 4:12 PM on April 16, 2009
Well, I see "Codependent No More" linked about four times a week, but then I do lurk in the relationship questions for my own prurient reasons. "Being An Adult In Relationships" often pops up in those same threads.
posted by arcanecrowbar at 4:12 PM on April 16, 2009
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posted by filthy light thief at 3:42 PM on April 16, 2009