Thursday, August 18, 2011

BookLamp - "The Pandora of Books"


It's gone live.

From a piece in Paste...

Booklamp.org went live earlier today, offering a free service similar to the wildly popular Pandora Internet radio service, but for books.

The story of BookLamp, the brainchild of 29-year-old Aaron Stanton, began back in 2003 when he and other students at the University of Idaho put together what they called the Book Genome Project. Similar to the Pandora-originating Music Genome Project, the Book Genome Project breaks down a literary work to analyze the style of writing, which they refer to as Language DNA, and assign numerical values to what they refer to as Story DNA: a breakdown of the settings and actors in any given scene.

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