Idea: Judge books by their cover

September 25, 2008

ADS by FUSION

Here’s another small project I’ve been working on. It’s called judgeby and it does exactly what it sounds like. You go on and get shown a random1; book cover from Amazon. Your job is to guess how good you think the book is. After you click, you see what Amazon reviewers actually rated it (and can head to the book’s Amazon.com to find out more). Rinse. Repeat.

Footnotes

1 Not totally random since Amazon doesn’t let you just grab a random book from its catalog, but there are ways to fake it ;)

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