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Posted October 01, 2009
Just saw this neat thing called BookLamp in the new Popular Science issue, and it's basically like Pandora for books (and none of those stupid restrictions). You sign up, choose books and authors you like, and it will find books similar to it. It says it's in beta right now, but it has less books in the database than a Somalian library, so your favorite authors and books may not be in there. Still, it's really interesting to see how this will pan out, and if you like reading, you'll probably enjoy it.
Posted October 01, 2009
Sounds interesting, being an avid reader, I'm compelled to check this out. Thanks!
Posted October 01, 2009
Having tried various formats of e-books, I have to say I'm with James T. Kirk on this issue :
I prefer holding a real book in my hands. It has warmth, and texture, and smell.
Posted October 01, 2009
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Lone3wolf: Having tried various formats of e-books, I have to say I'm with James T. Kirk on this issue :
I prefer holding a real book in my hands. It has warmth, and texture, and smell.

Uh, it's not an ebook service. It's only a recommendation service. You have to buy the books yourself.
Posted October 01, 2009
That is pretty damn swanky, hell of a lot of work goes into apps like that (hell I'm writing something similar in concept but drastically smaller for an IT project at uni).
Wonder if they're planning to integrate a shopbot style price finder for the books.
Posted October 01, 2009
Didn't something like this already exist? I vaguely recall having tried out a service similar to this, a while ago. It seemed rather popular.
EDIT: ok, nevermind. I was thinking of libarything.com, which is more of a personal book collection databse with some recommendation features. Booklamp seems to have a lot more functional potential.
Post edited October 01, 2009 by LordCinnamon
Posted October 01, 2009
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Lone3wolf: I prefer holding a real book in my hands. It has warmth, and texture, and smell.

I think he was talking about women
Or spock
Posted October 01, 2009
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Lone3wolf: I prefer holding a real book in my hands. It has warmth, and texture, and smell.
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Aliasalpha: I think he was talking about women
Or spock

I dunno, Spock always seemed like the kind who didn't shower unless he was forced to.
Besides, smell? If you like the smell of the binding glue, there's something wrong with you.
Posted October 01, 2009
From the title I came to think of this, which incidentally looks like a nice gadget to complement book reading.
Posted October 01, 2009
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Miaghstir: From the title I came to think of this, which incidentally looks like a nice gadget to complement book reading.

That is rather nice but a bit expensive for what is pretty much a sheet of plastic, a few leds and a battery case
Posted October 01, 2009
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Aliasalpha: I think he was talking about women
Or spock
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michaelleung: I dunno, Spock always seemed like the kind who didn't shower unless he was forced to.
Besides, smell? If you like the smell of the binding glue, there's something wrong with you.

lol. Are you talking pre, peri, or post Kohlinar, here? :P
Posted October 01, 2009
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LordCinnamon: Didn't something like this already exist? I vaguely recall having tried out a service similar to this, a while ago. It seemed rather popular.
EDIT: ok, nevermind. I was thinking of libarything.com, which is more of a personal book collection databse with some recommendation features. Booklamp seems to have a lot more functional potential.

There was. I forget the name right now, but it had the word "egg" in it. Basically, it gave you a cloud based upon an author, so you could try to find new authors.
ie. you type in "Isaac Asimov", and it gives you a cloud with a few hundred names. Arthur C Clarke would be pretty close, and someone like Dan Abnett might be at the very edge of the cloud.
And I'll take a look at this site. Finding new sci-fi is always so hard. Especially when your local Borders seems incapable of stocking anything other than vampire porn...
Posted October 01, 2009
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LordCinnamon: Didn't something like this already exist? I vaguely recall having tried out a service similar to this, a while ago. It seemed rather popular.
EDIT: ok, nevermind. I was thinking of libarything.com, which is more of a personal book collection databse with some recommendation features. Booklamp seems to have a lot more functional potential.
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Gundato: There was. I forget the name right now, but it had the word "egg" in it. Basically, it gave you a cloud based upon an author, so you could try to find new authors.
ie. you type in "Isaac Asimov", and it gives you a cloud with a few hundred names. Arthur C Clarke would be pretty close, and someone like Dan Abnett might be at the very edge of the cloud.
And I'll take a look at this site. Finding new sci-fi is always so hard. Especially when your local Borders seems incapable of stocking anything other than vampire porn...

There's also The Taste Kid, which will also recommend movies and music.
Posted October 01, 2009
There's also me who'll just tell you to watch Dr Who (Old and new)
Posted October 01, 2009
And there's me who'd tell you to just go read Conan.
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