Welcome to Crowdsource

Home of the TheBookSeekers, reinventing reading with a unique discovery engine

“Reading for pleasure is more important for children’s cognitive development than their parents’ level of education and is a more powerful factor in life achievement than socio-economic background.Reading for pleasure is more important for children’s cognitive development than their parents’ level of education and is a more powerful factor in life achievement than socio-economic background.”

Sullivan and Brown, 2013

“Children who read books often at age 10 and more than once a week at age 16 gain higher results in maths, vocabulary and spelling tests at age 16 than those who read less regularly.Children who read books often at age 10 and more than once a week at age 16 gain higher results in maths, vocabulary and spelling tests at age 16 than those who read less regularly.”

OECD, 2010

At Crowdsource we are using advanced data science techniques to revolutionise children’s reading

* Over 2m children’s books tagged using proprietary Natural Language Processing technology
* Tags interconnected and given semantic meaning via a highly specialised ‘word-web’ system
* Resulting in a search and discovery capability richer than any other

6

years of development

Over 500k

lines of code

2m

books processed

Founders

Our founders bring together a unique combination of linguisitcs and natural language processing skills with decades of practical experience of creating and growing consumer-facing businesses

Bridget

Co-founder & CEO

Degrees in Linguistics (Reading) and Economics (Cambridge)
Accomplished Python programmer, founder of TheBookSeekers and author of the code library


Ian

Co-founder & COO

Former PLC and PE CEO, with experience in launching and running subscription businesses scaled to millions of subscribers. Also experienced with Django, html and data analytics technologies
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See for yourself

TheBookSeekers is our demonstration site, showcasing hundreds of thousands of children’s books interconnected by millions of tag links.


You can:
* Follow your child’s interest by discovering other books based on character, story, theme and more
* Search results, “similar book” suggestions and other prompts all enhanced by clean and semantically connected data allowing search beyond simply terms in titles and author names

Visit TheBookSeekers

Our technology is already answering tough real-life search questions for parents and teachers

Any suggestions on books to support an UKS2 class that really struggles to empathise with each other, as well as (be willing to) understand the needs that certain members of the class have??

HELP! I need a fiction book aimed towards Year 6 based on theme parks or rollercoasters! Any help would be great?!

Hi, I’m looking for some recommendations on picture books I can read to year 3. Could you suggest any for me??!

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