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Technology makes Litaricy..Lieerisee...Literacy!
| 10.09.2005
I barely have time to read these days but when I finish a good book, i usually go onto another one by the same author. The problem occurs when I've exhausted every single book by a particular writer and am looking for something in the same style or subject matter. That, my friends, takes a lot of time and work if you're not a bookworm like my wife or in a book club which creep me out. Amazon tries to do this but there recommendations are usually based on a more primitive technology database (if you like this, you'll like this).
For those of us that still enjoy and find the time to read actual books in this day and age, What Should I Read Next? is a little gift from the Database Gods that encourages literacy and for me to give my poor eyes a rest from my alternate life as an RSS crawler. It's fairly simple. You go to the website, enter a book you like, and based on other people's book lists, it spits out a list of other books you may enjoy. From there, you can create your own book list by entering your email address, which will stop the database from recommending books that you've already read as well as increase the pool of books in the database. This project is owned by Thoughtplay, a creative agency based in the UK, and was programmed by 3aims.
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