Booklamp - an interesting book recommendation system

Posted on April 9, 2008
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BookLamp is a book recommendation system that uses the full text of a book to match it to other books based on scene-by-scene measurements of elements such as pacing, density, action, dialog, description, perspective, and genre. In other words, BookLamp.org is a Pandora.com for books, based on an author’s writing style. If you match against multiple books, the self-learning system adjusts your formulas to make the match specific to your tastes.

Because the system matches books through objective data from the text itself instead of relying on social networks to generate recommendations, the recommendations are impervious to outside influences such as advertising or author popularity. It also allows you to match to a far greater detail than alternative systems. With BookLamp, you can request a book similar to Stephen King’s The Stand, but half the length, first person, literary mainstream fiction, with slightly more dialog, less description, and a rising action level across the first 10 scenes. If that’s what you’re looking for.

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