About BookAmor
Discovery and advisory built for public libraries.
BookAmor is a discovery and advisory tool created for public libraries.
It helps patrons begin with a title, format, audience, language, or interest, then receive organized, librarian-style recommendations across books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, TV, music, magazines, newspapers, and video games.
BookAmor is designed to be simple for patrons, useful for staff, and respectful of library values: privacy, access, multilingual service, and connection to the local collection.
Why We Built BookAmor
Public library collections have changed. Patrons now move easily among books, audiobooks, eBooks, films, television, music, magazines, newspapers, and video games.
Public library communities have changed too. Many patrons want to explore library services in a language that feels more natural to them, and advisory tools need to support that reality.
Advisory tools have not always kept pace with either change. Many still treat books as the center of discovery and everything else as secondary, while multilingual service is often limited to interface labels.
BookAmor was created to help libraries make the full breadth of their collections more visible, while keeping the experience approachable, privacy-conscious, multilingual, and connected to the library’s own catalog.
What BookAmor Does
BookAmor helps patrons start with something familiar, then discover what to read, watch, listen to, or play next.
A patron enters a starting title or example, chooses a format, audience level, and language, and receives organized recommendation sections with brief librarian-style notes explaining why each item may fit.
- Books
- eBooks
- Audiobooks
- Movies
- TV
- Music
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Video games
- Adults, kids, tweens, and teens
- Multilingual patron experience
- Direct catalog links
- Printable PDF discussion guides
- Librarian-style recommendation notes
Patrons can use BookAmor in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Arabic, French, Ukrainian, Russian, Portuguese, and Hindi.
Multilingual support extends beyond navigation. BookAmor can provide recommendation notes in the selected interface language, recommend titles in that language when patrons search from within that language experience, and generate PDF discussion guides in that language.
The goal is not to overwhelm patrons with data. The goal is to give them a useful path forward.
Built Around Library Values
đź”’ Privacy-first
BookAmor does not require patron accounts or saved reading histories. Patrons can explore without creating a personal profile.
đź“š Collection-centered
Recommendations lead patrons back toward your library’s catalog, keeping discovery connected to your own collection.
🌎 Multilingual discovery
BookAmor supports multilingual interfaces, recommendation notes, language-appropriate title suggestions, and PDF guides.
BookAmor is designed for patrons and staff, with a clean interface, organized recommendation sections, language-aware advisory notes, and options that support more inclusive public library discovery.
A Discovery Layer, Not a Catalog Replacement
BookAmor is not intended to replace your catalog or discovery layer.
Instead, it gives patrons a friendly advisory experience, then sends them back to your catalog through Find in Library links when they are ready to look for an item.
The library catalog remains the source of truth for holdings, availability, local records, and catalog display language. BookAmor’s role is to make discovery easier, then connect that discovery back to your library.
Useful for Patrons and Staff
Patrons can use BookAmor for self-directed discovery. Staff can use it at the desk, in readers’ advisory conversations, in programming, and in display planning.
BookAmor can also generate printable book discussion guides in PDF format, giving libraries a practical way to support book clubs, teen programs, classroom partnerships, community reading, multilingual outreach, and language-specific discussion programs.
When a guide is created from within one of BookAmor’s supported language interfaces, the PDF guide is generated in that language as well.
Anonymous usage statistics can help libraries understand engagement without collecting patron identifiers.
Who Makes BookAmor
BookAmor is developed by Pronunciator LLC, a library-focused company that works with public libraries, academic libraries, consortia, and statewide library systems.
Our work has always centered on helping libraries provide practical, accessible digital services to their communities.
With BookAmor, that mission extends to discovery: helping patrons find more of what their libraries already make available, across formats, ages, and languages that better reflect real public library communities.
Want to learn more?
We can usually set up a working BookAmor demo connected to your catalog, so your staff can test the experience, including multilingual recommendations, advisory notes, catalog links, and printable PDF guides, using your own discovery environment.
Email us: sales@pronunciator.com