Oddly enough, I can log into smalldemons.uservoice.com but not smalldemons.com itself. I'm rather puzzled that they are not linked.

If a proper noun, say Pink, appears in a text published in 1974, then it's safe to assume that it does not refer to the musician, Pink, born in 1979. These are two known pieces of data that mean these two works are not connected.

I am a huge fan of what you are trying to do. I've been thinking about this kind of meta data for a long time.
Would love to chat with you.
David

My immigrant autobiography "A Struggle To Walk with Dignity-The True story of a Jamaican-born Canadian" 2008. To get more info on this book check these sites : http://geraldarchambeau.igaunabooks.com and the York U. Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, under the Archambeau-Thomas family Collections or phone: 416 736 5442 for
all the info on this Canadian immigrant life that was a success.

It would be nice to be able to find books set during a certain era. I have a book club reading books set during the medieval period, and it would have been handy to use your website to come up with ideas. As it is, I can't find a way to make it work, so either you've hidden that functionality well, or it doesn't exist.

I notice you don't actually have very many books on the website. I wonder if you could use something like an api from www.librarything,com to add more books, and even get more data.

At the moment, the map marks the places mentioned in the book, but they don't seem to tell what specific location is mentioned. For example, there may be a flag in the New York area, but how are we to know if it means the specific street that the flag is on, or the entire area, or a specific borough.

It would be helpful if the marker showed: 1) the specific location and 2) citation or example of where the place was mentioned within the book.

Although the Freebase license allows a little wiggle room for consumers who are using the data in aggregate, since you have individual concept pages, you really need to link back to the original Freebase page. I generic link to the freebase.com homepage just doesn't cut it.

Similarly, for Wikipedia and others who have attribution licenses.

How about having music as an option. For example, in the band Live's song Freaks they mention in the lyrics having Henry Miller in your back pocket. It would be nice to link books to music and vice versa.

smalldemons is all about text and what's in it. Why is it necessary to use a video to explain what smalldemons is about? I am text oriented; I want an article, not a video.

Looking up Catcher in the Rye, I found Holden Caulfield listed on the search results, but a link to this character is no where to be found within the book info.

It would be too vast to have all names mentioned in books listed, but for key characters who have their own entry, it would be practical to link them to where they're mentioned. :-)

Anyway to connect to my Amazon/Kindle account so I can pull in my already purchased/read books?

I like that it tells us that x number of people have added the same item to a collection, but it would be nice to have more information. Maybe we could see the collection, or maybe there could be a recommendation function where it says "People who added this book also added ..."

A friend of mine sent me a link to your project. I'm not sure if you'd be interested, but I've put a couple years into an annotative project connecting Emily Dickinson's poems to their Bible references. Check it out at sapphirefellows.zzl.org and let me know if you have any interest in connecting!

It should be possible to limit a search by literature type. I tried to find "Amsterdam in fiction" and had 60 hits, mostly non-fiction. When I tried "Amsterdam" in novels" most of the hits were about novels.

Ability to search by ISBN.

Writing a 630K wd three volume trilogy gets complicated. If Small Demons index and annotation software was available to authors they could write small demon compliant books from the get go. Of course it would have to be able to cope with dialects and non-standard language but the fact that English capitalisation rules are predictable and if a glossary system is provided for authors of sci fi then you could readily capture stories BEFORE they were submitted to publishing.

There are a lot of areas that could use benefit from the most basic gestural interactions for a start. Until then I'll thoroughly enjoy the site on my desktop, but I'd rather enjoy it from everywhere! Thanks!

I imagine a kind of literary family tree or timeline display of every author's influences, and who they have influenced. Also it would show an author's stylistic relatives and associated contemporaries.

For example: all the major 19th century Russian novelists and poets stemmed from Pushkin...display this, and then show who influenced Pushkin. Detail all the branches of literary milieus, etc. This kind of feature would be amazing...would probably require curators of some kind.