01.17.09

Book technology

Posted in literature, technology at 10:52 pm by rachel

No doubt by now you’ve seen Wordle.net, the awesome java app that creates lovely word clouds of whatever text you feed it? No? Well, you should check it out.

After talking about 1) Wordle and 2) Ender’s Game with my friend Sarah tonight over dinner, I decided to Wordle a few of the non-DRM’d ebooks I’ve collected over the years, starting with, you guessed it:

Our bets were on “Ender” “boys” “others” “battle” and “army” – looks like we didn’t do too badly. This could be a(n extremely dorky) fun new game! Guess the Wordle big words for your favorite book.

I did a few more, and they can be viewed here in my Wordle gallery.

This post is brought to you by my current obsession with books+technology, which is entirely the fault of the slick Sony PRS-505 that I bought off of craigslist yesterday.

2 Comments »

  1. Leah said,

    January 18, 2009 at 9:13 am

    OH MY GOD AWESOME I AM GOING TO BE PLAYING WITH THIS FOR THE NEXT 8 MILLION YEARS OK THNX BYE AM NOW BUSY

  2. Xander Skyrien said,

    November 9, 2009 at 2:52 am

    I’m sure i could find out the answer just by going to your link, but im lazy so im asking you instead. does wordie get the sizes by frequency alone? or is there some sort of… relational information thats used to generate the cloud piece sizes?

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