Database Logics

Here is an interesting webpage for finding books you like. Basically Booklamp recommends other books for you based on the pacing, density, dialog ect. Its currently pretty small and only looks at SciFi and Fantasy but its fun to see what kind of books it recommends. Here is some information from their FAQ:

What is BookLamp.org?

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, among others. 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. As the system moves out of beta, it will also incorporate human feedback into the recommendation systems, blending the strengths of social networks with the strengths of computer analysis. Ultimately, we want users to be able to create and share their own formulas, creating a community of book lovers that have tools to discover and share books in a way never before possible. Because the system matches books through objective data from the text itself instead of relying solely on social networks to generate recommendations, the recommendations are impervious to outside influences such as advertising or author marketing. 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. For a video describing the details of how BookLamp determines this information, return to BookLamp.org and watch the video on the front page.

Check out BookLamp here: BookLamp