kmccook writes “Wired News has a story,Judging a Book by Its Contents
that discusses new Amazon.com features that compare the text of hundreds of thousands of books to reveal an author’s signature constructions.
Bill Carr, Amazon’s executive vice president of digital media, observes;
“We are pioneers here … in that we have this amazing corpus — no one else has a corpus of this magnitude — and are finding exciting ways to leverage that content to make a better discovery process for customers.””
Amazon is also crunching data to automatically categorize books and make related book suggestions. Eek, sounds like a library!
Janet Croft, Bibliophilic Thrill-seeker
Guess I’m just a bibliophilic thrill-seeker — had a fun time running the stats on my own items listed on Amazon. My fog index is much higher than I expected! But if only you could search the SIP’s — what a boon for seekers-out of plagiarists, or to help you with that patron who is trying to locate a quote or memorable phrase. The regular search function doesn’t appear to pull up exactly the same results.
overanalysis
Too much already. Can’t we just let writing…be?