Does BookLamp Work? Can I use it right now to find a book to read?
The simple answer to this question is that while BookLamp works, it doesn’t have enough books in the database to work well. While the technology behind the system is capable of finding you books to read right now, BookLamp will remain a technology demonstration until we have a large enough database of books to give the system enough data to make realistic recommendations. Without more books, not only will most users have a hard time finding a book to match against, but the system will have a limited number of books that are capable of being matches. In other words, if we don’t have a book in the database that matches, we won’t be able to recommend a book for you. Additionally, with so few books in the database, we’re not able to match against all the metrics that we would like. In order to be the most effective, BookLamp needs to match against 7 to 8 metrics; with less than 300 books in the database, we’re having to make recommendations after matching against only 3 or 4 metrics.
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