The idea
Mar 2025
I kept running into the same thing — reading a great book and finding it packed with references to other books. But there was no easy way to see all those referenced books in one place, let alone discover which ones were worth reading next.
So I started building BookLinks. The concept is simple: for any book, see every book it references, and follow the chain as deep as you want.
Getting started
Mar 2025
Started with a basic scraper and a simple UI. The hardest part so far has been reliably extracting book references from text — not every mention of a title is actually a recommendation, and not every recommendation is explicit.
More updates coming as this takes shape.