Book Recommendation System Using Machine
Learning
Dr. Rashmi Thakur, Saurabh Mishra, Danish Ali Ansari, Sachin Mishra
Computer Engineering Departmen,Thakur College of Engineering & Technology, Mumbai
rashmi.thakur@thakuredu,cation.org, mishrasaurabh847@gmail.com, ansaridanishalii@gmail.com,
sachinm1106@gmail.com
Abstract—The following section provides an overview of
the Book Recommendation System using Machine
Learning. Recommendation Systems today are used in
most of the platforms to recommend services and products
to the users. Most of the libraries and websites that
provide books are enriched with books i.e. they have a
huge number of books, but also the needs of the users are
increasing, similarly the diversity is increasing and getting
personalized. To match the user’s need and find the
desired resource at the correct time we need a
recommendation system. A recommendation system
usually provides the users with the products and services
they might like or gives a prediction on how much the user
might like the particular item. Choosing what book to
read is the question for many users. There are two
common approaches for solving this issue, they are
Collaborative Filtering and Content-Based Filtering.
So,this paper focuses on using a Hybrid approach to
provide users with the personalized recommendation of
books. The Book Recommendation System recommends
books based on user parameters like age, location, user’s
preferred author, publication, and also similar content of
the other books read by the user.
Keywords— Book Recommendation System, Collaborative
filtering, User-based filtering, Rating based filtering, Item-
based filtering, Content-Based filtering.
I. INTRODUCTION
The popularity of recommendation systems has
increased a lot in recent times. Today many platforms
use recommendation systems to recommend products
and services to the users. Because of the Internet, the
needs of the users have been increased and also
diversified and personalized. To recommend books to
the users and to satisfy their needs we use a book
recommendation system. There are two popular
approaches for Book Recommendation System, and
they are Collaborative and Content-Based Filtering. In
Collaborative filtering, the approach is to build a model
from a user's past behavior as well as similar decisions
made by other users to predict items that the user may
have an interest in. In Content-based filtering, it
approaches the characteristics of an item are analyzed to
recommend items to the user. A recommender platform
with a combination of all these techniques is also
possible. We are building a book recommendation
system with a combination of all these techniques to
fulfill the user’s personalized and diverse requirements.
II. EXISTING SYSTEM
There is a large growth in the amount of data available
on the internet coupled with the fact that there are a
large number of internet users as well. This in turn has
led to the problem of exposure to this huge data
leading to information overloading. Hence for this very
purpose of personalization or customization,
Recommender systems came into the picture.
III. LITERATURE REVIEW
Collaborative filtering is one of the prominent
techniques used in recommender systems.
Collaborative filtering as the name itself suggests that
it is a method of filtering the interests of a particular
user based on collaboration among the various users,
various thoughts, etc. Collaborative filtering involves a
large amount of user data and his/her preferences.
Collaborative filtering is of two types namely model-
based and memory-based. Memory-based approach
requires us to find the similarity measure i.e. we need
to find the correlation between two users or a group of
users while in Model-based approach a model has to be
created using various data mining and machine
learning algorithms.
IV. OBJECTIVES
To design an online book recommendation system that
will recommend a collection of books that the users
will likely wish to preview or purchase.
V. PROPOSED SYSTEM
Collaborative filtering is been used very widely in
recommendation systems to create a recommendation
for the users. Our approach for the problem has four
steps which can be used parallelly, they are:
User-Based collaborative filtering: In User-Based
collaborative filtering we cluster the users based on
their common characteristics such as location, age, etc.
After Clustering we will recommend the books read by
the similar users in the cluster to our target user based
on some threshold frequency.
Item-Based collaborative filtering: In Item-Based
collaborative filtering we cluster the books read by the
target user based on their common characteristics such
as author, publication, genre, etc. After Clustering we
will recommend the books having the same
characteristics to the target user based on some
threshold frequency.
Rating Based Recommendation: In Rating Based
Recommendation we recommend the top-rated books or
the most popular books to the user based on the book's
ratings.
Content-based filtering: In Content-based filtering we
will cluster the books based on the content and
description of the books and then After Clustering we
will recommend the books having the same
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characteristics to the target user based on some VIII. RESULTS
threshold’s frequency.

VI. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

To develop a machine learning model that be flexible in
recommending books for both new and existing users.
Using this application would reduce the time required
for selecting a book to read.
Users may find new books that were previously
unknown to them. They can find what they should read
with the help of other user’s choices and making it Fig. 2 Graph showing Book Rating in terms of count
convenient for a reader to select a book of his choice
from this website.

Fig. 3 Recommendation based on Item-Based Collaborative Filtering

Fig. 1 Block Diagram of Recommendation System.

VII. ALGORITHM, TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY

A. Algorithm
I. Start
II. Get user record
III. Based on the record apply the following
filtering
IV. Apply all the types of filtering Fig. 4 Recommendation based on User-Based Collaborative Filtering
a. User-Based Collaborative Filtering
b. Item Based Collaborative Filtering
c. Rating Based Recommendation
d. Content-Based Filtering
V. Using the above recommendations from step 4
recommend books to the user
VI. Stop

B. Tools
 Colab,GCP
 Python Idle
 Web Tools Fig. 5 Rating Based Recommendation of Books

C. Technologies
 MachineLearning
 Python
 Data Science
 Web Technologies

Fig. 6 Recommendation based on Content of Title

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Fig. 7 Recommendation based on Content of Description
IX. CONCLUSION
This system aims to provide a personalized
recommendation of books to the user. The system tries
to predict the books by considering the item's similarity
as well as the user's similarity so that a user can get
recommendations for new books. This system will
effectively recommend quality books to old as well as
new users and enhance their reading experience.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This paper on ‘Book Recommendation System’ has
been possible only because of kind co-operation lent by
my teacher and project guide Dr. Rashmi Thakur
without which this would not have been possible. We
would also like to thank our parents, who have provided
us with all possible resources to gain the best possible
knowledge. At last, we would like to thank Dr. B.K.
Mishra (Principal), Dr. HarshaliPatil (Computer
department, HOD) for their guidance and support.
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