Evaluation

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The Bestselling Books Project is a great way for users to find the next bestselling book they may want to read. Whether it’s through selecting a literature and seeing the numerous subjects they fall under that may interest them, or select the genre tags they like and see the book options they can pick from. It creates a whole new internet archives of bestselling books and see how connected they can be to other literatures or how much other genre tags they fall under.

Though that doesn’t mean the project is completely perfect. It doesn’t explicitly state who the target audience is that the project was made for. It is implied it could be for readers of bestselling books, but because it isn’t stated, it’s hard to say it’s true or not if they are the target audience for the project.

Regardless, the project is a great contribution to Digital Humanities in expanding upon the literature archives. Many bestselling books can be found on the site, with subject tags that can allow the users to see what kind of literature it is, or see what bestselling books may connect to the one you found and be your next read. The project site is a cycle of new discoveries for readers to check out, whether on learning more about specific the books themselves or the genres they are interested in, and all of which connects to make the search for new reads expansive.