About Booklooky

Empowering families with transparent, spoiler-free book content information

Our Mission & Values

Booklooky exists to help families make informed reading choices without spoilers or judgment. We believe that parents, educators, and readers deserve transparent information about book content to match books with appropriate readers—not to censor or restrict access.

Our core values are:

  • Transparency - Clear, objective information about content themes
  • Non-judgment - We inform, never restrict or censor
  • Spoiler-free - Ratings reveal themes without plot details
  • Accessibility - Free for all families, always

How LRS Ratings Are Created

AI-Powered Analysis

Our system uses a custom designed AI, an advanced language model, to analyze books. The AI examines:

  • Book descriptions and synopses
  • Publisher information and categories
  • Genre classifications
  • Common Sense Media standards and age-appropriate content guidelines

The Analysis Process

Step 1: AI Analysis

Our custom designed AI analyzes the book against our 8 content categories, providing detailed ratings and age recommendations with confidence scores.

Step 2: Quality Review

Ratings with low confidence scores or user reports are flagged for expert manual review to ensure accuracy.

Step 3: Continuous Learning

User feedback and manual reviews help us continuously improve the AI's accuracy and understanding of nuanced content.

The 8 LRS Categories

Each book is rated 0-5 in these categories, where 0 means not present and 5 means central theme:

💥
Violence
Physical conflict, fighting, weapons, graphic content
❤️
Romance and Sexuality
Romantic relationships, kissing, sexual content
🧠
Mental Health
Depression, anxiety, trauma, psychological themes
Fantasy
Magic, supernatural elements, fantasy creatures
💬
Language
Profanity, strong language, crude humor
🍷
Substance Use
Alcohol, drugs, smoking, addiction themes
🌈
Gender Identity & Representation
Gender expression and gender identity themes
😨
Fear
Horror, terror, scary situations, suspense

Age Recommendations

Our AI determines age recommendations using a sophisticated multi-factor analysis:

  • Content intensity across all 8 categories
  • Vocabulary complexity and reading level
  • Theme maturity and emotional depth
  • Publisher age recommendations
  • Category classifications (Picture Book, Middle Grade, YA, etc.)

Books are assigned to one of four age brackets: 4+, 8+, 13+, or 18+.

Our Commitment to Objectivity

We are committed to providing objective, non-judgmental information. Our ratings describe what's in a book—not whether it's "good" or "bad." Different families have different values and comfort levels, and we respect that diversity.

We do not:

  • Advocate for banning or censoring books
  • Make moral judgments about content
  • Recommend or prohibit books for specific families
  • Allow commercial influence on ratings

We simply provide the information families need to make their own informed decisions.

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