This is an old side project a friend and I was working on to..

This is an old side project a friend and I was working on together for fun. Included are screenshots from our website and below is a description of our subscription model. Unfortunately my current offer is only available to residents current living in the US due to shipping costs: 📚 For $50, I can choose 5-6 books for you, personally curated from my massive library. For me to best select a book, I’d like to know the following information about you: a short list of your favorite books of all time, a list of your various interests, what aspects of a book do you find most engaging, and whatever you feel will tell me what you think I need to know in the selection process. 🌟 In my first semester of graduate school, a colleague (a mathematics graduate student) and I started a project called >Title Here<. It was intended to be a specialized curation service with the basic subscription model (similar to Book of the Month Club) dedicated to philosophy and mathematics texts. The idea began with a couple of friends asking me to recommend a philosophy book or a secondary source that can supplement their understanding of a primary philosophical text. This is, of course, a task I gladly avail myself to. My thought process when choosing a book starts with their philosophical background -- this isn’t necessarily about their academic knowledge but a general assessment of their personality in terms of what interests them and their goals. People come to philosophy for a variety of reasons, whether it be for personal enrichment or as an extension to their academic studies in another field. I feel my book selections are unique because it does not shy away from subjects that are interdisciplinary and tries to choose texts that are not as well known by the public. The purpose of this is to encourage the reader to understand and interpret the text in multiple frameworks and to resuscitate “hidden gems” from obscurity (many philosophers are lesser-known because their work has not been translated to English or are unfortunately overshadowed by some of the bigger names). For those who are new to philosophy, there may be some trepidation in knowing what topics they want to start with or what is of interest to them. There is also a misconception about philosophy and its relevance to the average person: philosophy is misconceived as a field that has lost its relevance in the modern world. The questions it poses are either unanswerable (therefore pointless to ask in the first place) or have already been answered by the illusion of objectivity reminiscent of 18th Century Enlightenment mentality (I am referring to the pitfalls of Scientism such as having pretensions to absolute Truth and what I would call unrelenting “faith” in something that is fallible and subject to revision rather than any disbelief in the scientific method or its results on my end). With this project, we hoped to augment the book discovery process with a curated book delivery service. Conversations are the natural place where debaters and intellectuals express their interests. Our process was to engage our members in discussions centered on the philosophical sciences, table our chats, and use these insights into member interests to mail them engaging works of literature or philosophy. When readers visit a bookstore it is often the books one should read that win out. It offered a unique way to find books by basing book recommendations off conversations with its members. I thought this approach would lead to new and diverse book selections. It was noted that my expertise is in the philosophical sciences, and all the books were purchased second hand to keep costs low. In the second photo is an example of the chat service we designed that allows us to get to know more about the customer’s tastes and preferences in order to make the perfect match. When we have found a book a member would enjoy based on our conversations we mailed it to them, at a flat rate. They chose the number of books per year they would like to receive. Our books were top-quality second-hand finds, discovered, and delivered from New York City. We delivered second hand books to minimize member costs, not to deliver low-quality books. With unique access to second-hand retailers we were able to deliver near new books at a fraction of the cost.