My morning Globe and Mail, and Stefanie at So Many Books, have alerted me to a cool new toy: Google’s Book N-Gram viewer, which lets you search the frequency of word usage in the (printed) English language. I’m too amazed by the fun of this site to really think about a serious search, but here’s how often the word bibliophilia appears in books.
Here’s more from Vanity Fair. (Who?! Vanity Fair. Their blog popped up first, and the write-up made me laugh. The Globe does not appear to have theirs on-line yet.) Or just go play with it yourself. Tell me what you find…
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