GeneReads

Book recommendation system using machine learning

GeneReads is a web application designed to recommend books available from Google Books API with a friendly interface that provides:

• search through the list of books that match the title/author
• view information about a specific book, links to the preview page.
• add to your own bookshelf if your interested, rate or review the books
• recommendation using Collaborative Filtering algorithm based on similarity metrics in the user space

The backend is developed using Java, Spring Framwork ( Spring Security, Spring MVC, Spring Boot) and Hibernate to provide the mapping of object-oriented entities to the relational database PostgreSQL.

The frontend integrates HTML, CSS, AngularJS and Javascript.