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each book in Amazon's Search Inside!™ program now features statistics computed from the text. next to a word cloud illustrating the most frequently used terms in a book, the statistical data includes indicators about a book's readability (i.e. the number of years of formal education required to read & understand a passage of text) & complexity (i.e. a score illustrating reading ease), the number of characters, words & sentences, & the "amount of words per dollar" or physical "weight".

[link: amazon.com (example) & amazon.com (help entry)|via tevenberlinjohnson.com|thnkx Mart!n]

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1 COMMENT

interesting use of statistics. realli helpful! looking forward to the expansion of this feature.

Mon 29 Oct 2007 at 5:24 PM
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