Statistically Improbabl Paladin of Souls

[jeriendhal]

Okay, apparently Amazon has too much time on it's hands. They've implemented a couple of new features in their listings on their books. The first is Statistically Improbable Phrases, phrases that show up an unusual number of times in a novel, but when comprared in aggregate to it's peers are relatively rare.

Forex: LMB's Paladin of Souls contains the following SIPs:
dowager royina, castle warder, parley officer, spiritual conductor, courier girl, courier station, demon light, fifth god, her inner vision, demon magic, baggage mules, red stallion, sewing woman, her stirrups, grinned briefly, court mourning, her demon.

They've also implemented a few other fun text toys, included the 100 most commonly used words (excluding "the"), Fog, Fleish, and Fleish-Kincaid indexes, and statistics on who many words per dollar and per ounce you would be paying for the book.

Comments

dollars/unit of measure

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

It'd be neat to plug in your estimated reading speed (say, 400 words per minute) bounce against book length, (say, 50,000 words) and price (say, $20) and determine your cost per minute of entertainment, versus, say, opera tickets, football tickets, etc.

Would you pay ten cents a minute for somebody to tell you a story?

Re: dollars/unit of measure

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, I would, but fortunately my wife tells them for free. :)

Re: dollars/unit of measure

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

You're leaving out the pleasures of rereading - which are free, unlike the situation of the other entertainments you mention.