Booklamp: Like Pandora for Your Books

Anybody familiar with the Music Genome Project? How about Pandora? Basically, the Music Genome Project is the science that makes Pandora work. Experts take a look at over 450 different musical characteristics for each song that is in the MGP database, and this data is used by Pandora to find music that is right up your musical alley.

Well, what if I told you that the same kind of thing exists for books? Pretty cool, no? Booklamp is the front end of the Book Genome Project, just like Pandora is the front end for the Music Genome Project. The Book Genome Project takes a look at the language, story, and characters in a book, and turns them into information that can be used to find similar books to what you are already reading.

The Book Genome Project uses computer intelligence to come up with data points on a scene by scene basis. BGP calls this collection of data the BookDNA, and the BGP gives you book suggestions that are similar to the BookDNA of the book you are interested in, or let's you find books that are similar to a specific piece of the book you like.

For example, The Maze Runner by James Dashner has a huge chunk of Tunnels/Combined Spaces/Underground Environments in its StoryDNA, and Pacing is one of the higher points in the LanguageDNA. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has Partying/Deviance as one of its top points in StoryDNA, and Pacing is also one of the highest points in its LanguageDNA.

The Book Genome Project is adding new titles constantly, so see if your favorite books are on it and see if it works for you to find your next favorite book =D