Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett move closer together as the music swells. Soft strains of flutes and violins surround the scene as one of the most romantic moments in the whole of Pride & Prejudice is about to happen. You turn the page of the eBook, breath — wait a minute … turn the page?
If you’re reading one of the releases from Booktrack, that’s precisely what you’d be doing at that point. The company began with a simple idea: adding movie quality soundtracks to an eBook version of say Moby Dick, where while you read you hear ambient marine noises and appropriate music, becomes an immersive experience that more fully draws the reader into the world of the book.
eBooks like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, The Three Musketeers and more classic and modern tales (such as the YA novel The Power of Six from HarperCollins) either have been or will be released by Booktrack with soundtracks designed to heighten what’s already on the page the same way good music heightens the visuals of a movie.
A good example of what music can do is the movie Halloween. I remember watching a scene from Carpenter’s film without the music attached to it. It was a simple night shot of a house with its second floor windows lit. Without music, the house looked like any old building on any night in America. Add the telltale discordant music however, and it became sinister and foreboding.
The theory behind Booktrack’s product offering is precisely the same. Add a soundtrack to a book like Pride & Prejudice and you heighten the sense of engagement for the reader. “The real world falls away,” states a promotional video on www.Booktrack.com, or at least that’s the idea behind the product.
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