Book club
Search Application

An application in development that will enable readers to search for and contribute to objective information about books prior to purchase without giving too much away.

For example, the above screen shot shows a series of graphic representations of writing rhythm.

The user can move through the three dimensional layout
of book excerpts arranged according to search relevance and can encounter passages that they may not have otherwise via a more physical and explorative search method.

Other instances include sonic representations, tagging and also completely user–defined methods such as voice recordings of what the book sounds like to the reader. One form of search method could be the ability to explore a collection of book sonifications in a similar manner to the graphic visualisation example above. The closer the user gets to each text, the louder that text becomes in a similar way to the functionality created by Daniel Jones on the Fragmented Orchestra website.

I have been researching how to integrate automated analysis of book content. For example, the curvature of the line that represents writing rhythm could be obtained by the average change in sentence length.