technology

Visualizing Books Online

We search, we browse, and we refer people we know to books that we like, but we rarely see books in a different way.

Some very creative persons in Japan (Tha Ltd.) have created a website that takes a keyword that you are searching for, goes through Amazon Web Services and extracts all the book covers from the titles that pertain to your keyword.

What makes amaztype different from the common search engine, you might ask? Well, it uses the book covers to spell out the keyword that you were looking for and you can then zoom in and look at the books that you may be interested.

Perhaps this tool can help define Canada …

About the author

Ehren is the online marketing specialist at Dundurn Press. He's an avid reader of YA novels, graphic novels, and non-fiction titles. While he's not necessarily a fan of literary fiction, he will literally latch on to the few that seriously catch his interest.