BookLamp
BookLamp, part of the Book Genome Project, is a tool and a resource for finding books. It offers an alternative to social recommendation engines reliant on author popularity by treating its books as equal regardless of number of copies sold. BookLamp's goal is to match users to the books relevant to their interests as accurately as possible. Rather than genres, it uses 'StoryDNA', which identifies the thematic ingredients important to a book's narrative, in addition to how prominent that ingredient is within the text.
BookLamp has been retired as of April 2014 and the website is no longer available. The site has been captured by the Internet Archive, and may still be viewed there via the Wayback Machine.
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- Type of analysis: Search Discovering
- Type of license: Free
- Background Processing: Not Applicable
- Web Usable: Run in Browser
- Ease of Use: Easy
- Warning: No longer supported
- Tool Family: Book Genome Project
- Historic Tool (developed before 2005): No longer in active development
- TaDiRAH Methods: Discovering
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For more information about BookLamp, its origins and its goals, please see the Book Genome Project's website and the BookLamp FAQ document.
Individual books' views show their most prominent StoryDNA elements and lists the most similar other books based on those elements. An option to search for similar books by adjusting the amount of particular StoryDNA elements is in the works. For a quick example, please see the entry for Octavia Butler's novel Kindred.
The website is no longer available but it can be seen from wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140210212627/http://booklamp.org/