> I'm really curious how you would suggest to measure the "true value" of books. ... Aesthetics (here book appreciation) simply isn't objective to begin with.
And this would be the crux of the problem. We have sales numbers (objective) and reviews (subjective). It is compounded that undervalued books will have fewer reviews to work with.
But the hardest part is that people are not good judges of these things. Or maybe they are, but they have different tastes than you do. So, to action!
1) You rate the top 100 books in amazon as high valued or not.
2) A scraper + statistics finds people who agree with you.
3) Looking at the bottom half of books, find those which your subset of people like.
4) Farm it out to netflix, since that is what they do anyway.
And this would be the crux of the problem. We have sales numbers (objective) and reviews (subjective). It is compounded that undervalued books will have fewer reviews to work with.
But the hardest part is that people are not good judges of these things. Or maybe they are, but they have different tastes than you do. So, to action!
1) You rate the top 100 books in amazon as high valued or not.
2) A scraper + statistics finds people who agree with you.
3) Looking at the bottom half of books, find those which your subset of people like.
4) Farm it out to netflix, since that is what they do anyway.