@rats ah mmmfor here get along with grabbing a few nice things, authors/directors etc, and web search them all at once, can bring up blog and forum posts. works less well with post 2010 stuff, though XX
@shmibs i need to rate more books before it will generate recs, because i only wanted to rate things as i read them and not retroactively rate things i remember from a while agothe 'similar books' recommendations are pretty mediocre but occasionally good and occasionally awful enough to be funnyi remembered a few people from my days on rym and following them and looking at their friends' libraries has been the most helpful. found hilda hilst through one of them which was the best discovery in a while