How is the atmosphere Sinclair’s jungle similar to that of Kipling? How do they differ?

With these questions I created the first Book-Book, a bit of data art designed to let the viewer sit back and discover the differences and similarities in how two books sound/read. The speed is calibrated to be too fast to read every word but to let them remain apprehensible.

The series expanded to cover four pairs of books:

The Jungle vs The Jungle Book

The Communist Manifesto vs The Wealth of Nations

The Inferno vs Siddhartha

and Anne of Green Gables vs The Ladies Book of Etiquette

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Coming soon: make your own Book-Book with texts of your choice.

Built with: Python, d3.js, Project Gutenberg