Similar Projects

Lots of people love the combination of books and travel. A few projects similar to BiblioTravel:

  1. Bookfriend - Carrie Hall - "Bookfriend is a book companion guide application for Android mobile devices." - Uses data from BiblioTravel, among other sources. Carrie's blog has lots of neat info about developing an Android app (eg: Bookfriend will scan book barcodes and tag books on a Google Map), as well as where else her app will pull data from.

  2. Reading the World - John Brookes - "I am travelling the globe through contemporary literature (fiction and narrative non-fiction), having started in London, England." John also has a blog and has kindly entered his list of books so far on BiblioTravel.

  3. Longitude Books - "Recommended Reading for Travelers" - Darrel from Longitude says: "Though we recommend guidebooks, maps, movies, field guides, histories and other kinds of books, we specialize in literature." Longitude also has a blog.

  4. Google Lit Trips - "Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth."

  5. Oxygen Books - Publishers of the city pick series, which gathers great writing about great cities into handy volumes. They have a blog called the city-lit cafe.

  6. Project Bookmark Canada - A neat project to place a plaque, complete with relevant excerpt, in the physical location of notable works of fiction. Of the works mentioned, BiblioTravel has In the Skin of a Lion and Fugitive Pieces.

Interesting Blogs

  1. A Traveler's Library - Vera Marie Badertscher - "Here at the Library, we will wander the globe, in no particular order, ignoring the Dewey Decimal system, the alphabet, continental boundaries, or any other artificial organization. Novels, histories, biographies, travel narratives– all kinds of literature that help you understand a place and the people and culture."

  2. Novel Destinations - Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon - "Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West" - A book available from National Geographic, and now a blog

  3. Romantic Armchair Traveller - "Danielle C. tours the globe through romance novels and other romantic fiction."