Author already in your catalog - Do you need more recommendations?

I automatically delete any recommendations for authors already in my catalog. If I want to read more of their work, I'd just go to the author page.

Do other people find them useful?

It hugely depends! If it's an obscure author it could produce a title I wasn't aware of.

We used to have an option to ignore recs from authors already in the catalogue. It was very useful, but Tim took it away for some reason . Recs have never as good thereafter. Too much obvious to wade through

Yeah, I really don't know why that option was taken away.

As I recall, Tim had one of his redo's of recommendations this time and that ability wasn't included on the new pages. I suspect it was just an oversight, but I don't remember Tim ever responding to the questions that arose over it.

Here's Tim's original response. There were few requests for filtering currently owned authors in that first thread. But I know it's been requested many time since. Perhaps we can "get up a campaign" as he suggested. I would certainly like the feature.

This makes sense to me.

The only time I see this as a downside is if the author came out with a new book... the way it is now acts as a 'reminder' of sorts, no? Of course, I don't know how 'real-time' these things update, nor what flags a book to be in your recs. Maybe it really isn't a good reminder of new releases?

Just a thought. I still agree with you all... I don't want to see a lot of the recs I get. Some I may have on my to-read list, other I may have chosen to intentionally ignore.

p.s. - If this idea does not fly, at least remove the separate books I've already read in an anthology from recommendations? ;)

Well, this is very interesting. By the time I looked at my recommendations, that feature was long gone, and I had hundreds of recommendations for science fiction books we'd discarded years ago or decided not to buy.

A campaign sounds like a good idea, but perhaps we should think about timing. Tim's in the middle of at least three projects now and there's lots of sentiment that big unfinished projects should be next on the list. So maybe we should hold off for now?