First off, it's fairly obvious that you could have a "hacker shelf", "new mom shelf", "mathematician's shelf", and so on.
Second off, I see little point in making your own database, when Amazon is.. well, pretty much the standard app and user interface for searching for books.
My suggestion is to do something which integrates with Amazon and lets people define their own "shelves" by choosing Amazon products. Everyone could define themselves as a mathematician, hacker, new mom, etc. It would be kinda like social networking gone Amazon.
P.S. Upvote for letting me know about a few really cool books, like the Haskell School of Music which I intend to read.
First off, it's fairly obvious that you could have a "hacker shelf", "new mom shelf", "mathematician's shelf", and so on.
Second off, I see little point in making your own database, when Amazon is.. well, pretty much the standard app and user interface for searching for books.
My suggestion is to do something which integrates with Amazon and lets people define their own "shelves" by choosing Amazon products. Everyone could define themselves as a mathematician, hacker, new mom, etc. It would be kinda like social networking gone Amazon.
P.S. Upvote for letting me know about a few really cool books, like the Haskell School of Music which I intend to read.