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Originally Posted by Hellmark
For what you want, you're destined to be entirely at the mercy of other people's reviews. With music, it is easy, you tag a song with a genre, and measure the beats per minute, and simply play a random song that is in the same style. Can't really do that for books.
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Conceptually, I think you have it exactly backwards.
It's far easier to create an expert system to analyse word use, language, genre elements, grammatical structure, etc, in text then it is to measure the elements of music that Panadora does. I mean, technically, I could write a thesaurus comparison function for text, I wouldn't know where to start making code figure out if a song was "guitar driven" or "family friendly."
Pandora does a pretty good job with it's choices, but really so does Amazon's recommendation system, and it doesn't use any of those sorts of data, which I think could only make it better if it did.