Add a Soundtrack to Your Reading Experience with Booktrack

Meg Rayford viaTech Cocktail

Your favorite movies have their own unique soundtracks, and now your favorite books can, too. Founded by Paul Cameron, Booktrack is a startup that is changing reading – and the publishing industry – forever.

Booktrack creates synchronized soundtracks for ebooks to enhance the reader’s imagination and engagement. Combining music, sound effects and ambient sound, Booktrack’s technology automatically paces itself to an individual’s reading speed.

I mentioned the idea of a ‘booktrack’ to some friends last night, and it elicited a surprisingly heated response from several, who seemed almost angry at the audacity of those that would ordain what music should accompany the reading of a book. But, I wondered, don’t you accept the idea that there is a soundtrack in a movie? But my friends went on grumbling, even after agreeing that there was a certain authoritarianism in a movie soundtrack as well, but they maintained that book reading was a soliltary activity, and a s a result, no one should get in between the words and your mind.

Wow. I have a feeling this may not catch on with everyone.

(Source: underpaidgenius)