Lint makes you a great read in one click

I only want to read books I can't put down, and I don't want to spend more time searching for a book than I spend reading it. I built Lint so I could just read without the research.

Are you able to easily find your next great read? And do you enjoying reading ebooks or physical books? If you prefer ebooks what's your ereading setup?

@rickoliver I was writing a reply to your comment but it the original comment disappeared! Not sure if that is a bug or what but I wanted to make sure you get my response so I hope you don't mind my tagging you:

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@rickoliver Exactly. You said it better than I could say it myself!

"Do you think Lint could lead you to explore genres you might not have considered before?"

yes, definitely. genres at a big scale and specific topics at a small scale. Try https://lintreader.com/shuffle

"And do you have any all-time favorite books that you'd recommend to everyone?"

Absolutely. Btw, I built Lint's search that it would make a recommendation close to what I would, if I had read tens of thousands of books.

My all-time favorite books I re-read are all history.

My all time favorite is the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire (https://lintreader.com/book/gibb...). For learning, it is the starting point for ~200 - 1453. If you went to college before 1850 the rec for anything in that time would be to read the chapter in Gibbon. Out of 71 chapters, maybe 3 are fundamentally inaccurate. If you're a reading champion you can read it cover to cover, but I get more out of it reading the chapters about what I'm interested at the time. In terms of literature, Gibbon created a world you can sink into. And he's hilarious.

A much smaller book is Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (https://lintreader.com/book/adam...)

It's a combination of travelogue, art history, and social history. He brings certain aspects and events of the Middle Ages to life in a way I've never read anywhere else. I'm thinking of his chapter on William the Conqueror's herald leading the charge at Hastings by singing the Song of Roland.

And a third non-public domain rec: I love Robin Waterfield's translation of Herodotus' the Histories. Herodotus invented prose nonfiction. Lint owes a lot to him. Robin Waterfield is not just a great translator, but also a great writer. So you can just get lost in the work and really understand why it's a classic, instead of feeling like you're in school.

But there are tons of books out there, and nobody has time to read them all! If anybody is looking for recs, or trying to explore what their all time favorite books would be personally, please reach out. Especially if Lint is not able to make you recommendations automatically.

"Lint only knows about concepts that existed before 1928" that's quite conservative approach. Why is that?

Congratulations on the launch!