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You are listening to the Get Booked Feed where we are doing a whole big experiment thing.

This is a special unplanned, but very exciting, at least to me, bonus episode about algorithms.

I am Jen Northington. I'm coming to from Book Riot. And I am here with special guest Emily Pullen from the New York Public Library. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello.

Welcome to get booked, sort of. I'm very happy to be here, very excited.

Yeah, so I will explain now a little bit about how this special extra episode came to be.

Emily and I have known each other for more than a decade.

Definitely more than a decade, yeah.

Possibly 20 years now? No, it can't be that long maybe maybe like

15 yeah 15 is 12 to 15 yeah something like that um we met when we were baby booksellers

working at different bookstores I know and different cities in different parts of the country that's right

that's right but it was a friendship that was meant to be.

And our paths have since, you know, gone all over the place.

We did get to work together in Word bookstore in New York City for a while.

But now, obviously, Emily is a librarian.

And I saw her recently.

And we were talking about what was going on for us at work.

And I mentioned this experiment to you and you were like, that's so funny because, hey, yo, I wrote

my master's thesis about algorithms and bias and online recommendation tools. So it seemed like maybe it would be a

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