14 DAY TRIAL // This is a mashup that I think will be very useful for the people still in the learning process and who are the type to go knee-deep into a story, fully submerge in its plot and know the characters as if they were long lost friends that are starting to discover themselves once again.
In case you were wondering whether the book you are reading has any geographic context, be sure to check this mashup out. The way it works is that you enter a search by name, title and author and then go through a tagcloud of most common geographic tags based on your current search and navigation state. The result is the mashing with Amazon.com, LibraryThing.com, Google Book Search and Wikipedia.org, each particular return linking to the book and to other sites.
It's sad that not all the books have been indeed in this mashup, but it would have been a titan's work if it were to be done, so I can't really complain. Would have been nice, though, to be able to follow the road Umberto Eco actually went on while documenting his "Foucalt's Pendulum" or at the very least Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian". Don't know about you, but vampires in general and Dracula in particular make me want to know more about where they're at, so that I can stay the hell away from there? I'm not saying that they exist, but just in case.
The default map type is the Terrain View because, as Mark Watkins, the creator of the mashup, says: "...It seems to have a nice aesthetic combination with books." Don't linger any longer if the above sounds interesting, click on the link I've so generously provided (I am quite the humanitarian) and hope that your book is among the 8760 indexed this far.