Posts

Showing posts from January, 2016

Books of 2015.

Image
What to Read? One thing I don’t like is trying to figure out what book I will read next. There are 129,864,880 of them of every imaginable topic. Each one has hundreds of reviews and summaries online. There are wikipedia articles, Amazon user reviews, still more professional reviews published in periodicals and blogs, the list goes on. That’s just too many choices, too much information to process. I’m working on a software solution to the “what to read” problem and I want to test my theory that it only takes a few pieces of information about the book (a nice picture, a few quotes, and a plot summary) for a person to make a good ‘read it/don’t read it’ decision. First, a large dynamic art depicting of some plot point or theme from the book (see ‘A Darkling Sea’ below. I enjoyed it BTW.), or if thats not available then maybe just a large picture of the book cover. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but if that were true publishers wouldn’t bother making book co