Examples
“I spent about three years of college work-study scanning books--textbooks, fiction books*, all sorts of books required by one classroom or another--and running them through OCR.”
“Depending on what numbers you use, and whether you count self-published books as books**, anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 new books a year are published in the States.”
“Trashy books make the world go round...*grins & hugs her trashy books*”
“The following list contains (a) books or articles treating particularly, or at some length, the relation of German authors to Laurence Sterne; (b) books of general usefulness in determining literary conditions in the eighteenth century, to which frequent reference is made; (c) periodicals which are the sources of reviews and criticisms cited in the text.”
“The reason why I refused was this, orders were given to search every negro house for books or prints of any kind, and _Bibles_ and _Hymn books_ were particularly mentioned.”
“American author whose books, as _books_, obtained recognition abroad; whose name was thought worthy of mention beside the names of English contemporary authors, like Byron, Scott, and Coleridge.”
“Neither is the _modern dedication_, of books and writings _as to patrons_, to be commended: for that books -- such as are _worthy the name of books_, ought to have _no patrons, but_ -- (hear) but -- Truth and Reason.”
“Young IRELAND was acquainted with a son of a bookseller, who dealt in _old books_: the blank leaves of these books supplied the young author with paper; and he found out the way of making proper ink for his purpose.”
“Besides these books that he left behind him, he had, some years before his death, sold by auction a _noble collection of books_, most of them in the _Rosacrucian Faculty_ (of which he was a great admirer): whereof there is a printed catalogue extant (as there is of those that were sold after his death), which I have often looked over with no small surprize and wonder, and particularly for the great number of MSS. in the before mentioned faculties that are specified in it.”
“I worry about authors writing to what they perceive to be reader expectations and I worry about readers feeling guilted into supporting writers instead of books â⬠because both of these things, IMO, do not bode well for the *books*, and I’m in this for the books, not the authors, per se.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘books’.
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Vendance Is Mine
Vot? Stuff dispensed from vending machines. Don't ask vhy.
p.s. Generic, no brand names please.bubblegum, soft drinks, cigarettes, coffee, muesli bars, phone cards, stale peanuts, chicken salad san..., cheeseburger, peanut butter coo..., an original work ..., amaretto-flavored... and 62 more...
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Stuff I Did Get For Christmas
Inspired by the happiness of Christmas and grantbarret's list, Gifts I Do Not Wish to Receive
books, pens, notebooks, earphones, cd, kiss, phone call, cranky with a dud..., two packages of K..., lint roller, snowman-shaped pl..., lip gloss in a pl... and 7 more...
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AMAZING things
Things that are amazing.
Beaches, squab, Sprite, Photography, Sunsets, Nutella, Cell Phones, SFF's, Flowers, Weddings, Twitter, Summer and 18 more...
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precious things
birds, hugs, words, trees, babies, family, shells, oceans, butterflies, self-steem, pain, moon and 15 more...
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Must Needs
books, notebooks, pens, shoes, the laws of physics, calories, underwires, two H's, undies, oven mitts, chewing gum, duct tape and 45 more...
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happy words
Words that cheer you up, give you happy thoughts and feelings, or just put you in a positive state of mind.
magic, childhood, dawn, smile, kitten, drizzle, friend, beach, free, love, sweet, cozy and 20 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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prison
politics, kite, rape, hoosegow, klink, real world, books, hooch
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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My Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for books.
plethora Every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list :D Nov 1, 2008
Prolagus There is one - see misunderestimate (I'm using a pocket device). Oct 29, 2008
plethora Classic.
There needs to be a list of Bushisms.
My favourite is: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." Oct 29, 2008
yarb Bush is right. That is one of the great things about books. Oct 29, 2008
bilby "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.�?
- George W. Bush. Oct 29, 2008
seanahan "*58% of Wordies have read 3 books in the past two weeks.
*42% of Wordies skipped their college graduation ceremony to read a book.
*80% of Wordie families have spent more than $500 on books in the last year.
*70% of Wordies have not been in a bookstore in the last five days."
-(source me) Aug 19, 2008
bilby Gah, was all set to post the link yesterday and mango forgot. Will try to find again. For what its worth, the stats look like rubbish to me. What does '80% of families' mean anyway? First you'd need to define families. Then, what if one of two children reads books, the other child and the parents don't ... do they qualify as a 'did not read or buy a book' family or not? There are probably lots of kinds of stores that 70% of adults might not go to in any five year period so I find that stat outright unimpressive.
Ok, got it, it's buried among all kinds of book stats on this page. Stats quoted have a link to the source underneath. In the case of the stats in question I fished around the Jenkins sites a bit but couldn't find a full write up.
For the record, 67.38% of my comments are pish-tosh. Aug 16, 2008
reesetee Did you guys know that only 43.5% of statistics made up on the spot are correct? Aug 15, 2008
chained_bear Yarb, I had heard it was as high as 83%, but frankly I just don't trust that statistic. For all I know, it could've been made up on the spot. Aug 15, 2008
yarb I'm as sceptical as anyone about literacy in the US (and other countries), but those stats look dodgy to me. Can you give us a link, bilby?
cb, recent studies have suggested that the percentage of statistics made up on the spot is closer to 35. Aug 15, 2008
chained_bear I wonder what the stats are for other countries too. Or if the word "book" was not so lonely, and the questions addressed reading of periodicals, Internet news sites, etc.... if that would change the results.
Usually these things are compiled by politically motivated groups of one kind or another.
Because you know, 27% of statistics are made up on the spot. Aug 15, 2008
milosrdenstvi I wonder how accurate those statistics are. Aug 15, 2008
bilby "* 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school
* 42% of college graduates never read another book
* 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year
* 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years"
-(source Jeff Jarvis)
Aug 15, 2008
anydelirium 'There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well-written, or poorly written. That is all.' -Oscar Wilde, in the author's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Feb 20, 2008