Amazon Adventures

Thursday, June 30. 2005

Amazon.com that is. I was looking up this book, as it had been recommended to me for a light read, and I noticed the "Inside the Book" section of the page, which had the following links:

Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mysterious articles, betting book, carriage accident
Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Randolph, Miss Bingley, Miss Kendall, Caroline Bingley, Lawrence Kendall, Frederick Parrish, Lord Chatfield, Mont Joyau, New Orleans, Juliet Kendall, Bow Street, Lady Catherine, Charles Bingley, British Museum, French Quarter, Drury Lane, Louisa Hurst, Good Lord, Haye Park, Grosvenor Street

What an odd feature! And there was also a Concordance, which gave me the 100 most frequently used words in the book and Text Stats, which included readability indexes.

Fascinating marketing tool.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 13:41 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Pride and Prejudice?"

Light reading?

Just the title of the book makes me cringe - the only worse memory I have of books I was forced to read is Pilgrim's Progress.

Yeah, I know, some people love Jane Austen. Not me.

OK, you're geekier than me

-- big brother

#1 JaBbA (Homepage) on 2005-07-01 10:12 (Reply)

You should try it again. Try it on audiobook. It's funnier than you think.

I actually remember when you were having to read P&P

#1.1 Louise (Homepage) on 2005-07-01 11:21 (Reply)

Ok, I hit the comment button because I was going to toss in on what a strange and interesting statistical analysis Amazon has developed.

Instead, I shake my head at your comment, Jabba. I suggest you take a look at the link again. It's a play on words, see? "Pride and Prescience" not "Prejudice."

#1.2 Russ (Homepage) on 2005-07-05 05:30 (Reply)

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