Useful, and also a neat way to make some side-cash via your affiliate link. I suspect I'll be checking this regularly.
One thing that would be really handy - or at least interesting - is a "most recently mentioned" list. For example, when people were talking a lot about Program or be Programmed a while back, it would have been fun to see that rise to the top.
It may generate some side-cash via the affiliate links - it would certainly be useful to us. We'll see how it goes anyway :)
The most recently mentioned list is a very good idea. I had something similar in mind, like a news-letter that would send the "most mentioned this month", so you can get the trends.
I think it could be useful for sure. Both a most recently mentioned list, and most often mentioned list. I'm more interested in the latter as it is more telling.
If making cash via an affiliate link is the goal, it would make sense to have the link to the user's localised Amazon site. I much prefer to buy from Amazon.co.uk as I'm UK-based so right now I'll just highlight-> right-click-> google the title and end up bypassing the affiliate link.
Well it's only a secondary goal, as I don't expect to make loads of money with it, but it would certainly be nice.
Being able to select your amazon store is planned as well (I'm in France so I totally understand your point :-)).
I choosed to ship without that though, to see if people like the site first or not. It will require a bit of work underneath to do well, things such as verify in the background if a book is actually available on amazon.co.uk, .fr etc to avoid sending the person to the wrong place.
One thing that would be really handy - or at least interesting - is a "most recently mentioned" list. For example, when people were talking a lot about Program or be Programmed a while back, it would have been fun to see that rise to the top.