Sunday, April 12, 2015

Let Me Show You

Have you ever finished a book that was so beautifully written that you still thought about it days after? Have you ever zoned out of class to think about the brilliant plot, characters, and scenes. Ignoring the lecture on atoms to play through the unexpected event you had completely missed the foreshadowing leading up to it? Have you ever wished you could find other books that were like that one, whether the voice, style, characters, or plot was similar you just wanted a book that had a tie between them? Have you ever been disappointed when you couldn't do that because you couldn't find a tool to help? I have, and I hope you have to. I'm notorious for spending weekends skipping through pages of a book, absorbing all the wonderful details and then moping the rest of the week when I don't want to move on and I just can't find books similar with my own restricted knowledge of the books out there. But, now I can find just what I'm-and hopefully you're- looking for...

A screenshot of the results to searching a book.
Amazon has a tool that they define as, "... a visual recommendation service that helps people find the right product from Amazon's catalog." It relates millions of books to the one you loved in a tumbling web of stories. And I have every intention on using it. All you have to do is write the title of the book in the search bar, click go and it will pull of tons of options connecting to that book, books that are similar, books similar to the similar and so on and so forth. But it doesn't just stop at books. You can use the tool to search through all of amazon departments, such as music or videos.  I absolutely love this nerdy invention because I'm always searching for new treasures to adorn my shelves. 

I used it recently to look up matches to Berry Lyga's I Hunt Killers, a charmingly chilling serial killer mystery. I fell in love with this book and Lyga's writing style and wanted to find books that were similar. The site gave me 123 results, some of which I had already read, that I could browse through and investigate. 

I loved this gadget and I hope you will too. Just click the link below to go to the site. 





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  1. Lauren ThomasApril 26, 2015 at 2:04 PM

    Great job Cami! I have been at a loss of what to read after finishing a great book! I liked how you used a personal experience to show that the tool really works. I look forward to trying this out myself and finally stop watching so much Netflix, so I can finally pick up a book.

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