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The Times Labs: Book Scraper

Interesting lab project created by the Times newspaper.

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We have created a database of 126 classic publications by 53 authors. They contain 12,821,197 words in total, and have a combined vocabulary of 105,839 words.

Book Scraper lets you explore them in different ways.

You can search by author and learn, for instance, that Shakespeare's written vocabulary was in the order of 24,000 words.

You can search by publication, and discover that the longest word in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is pectinibranchidae, which is 17 characters long. (It's a type of mollusc.)

Or you can type in a word, and Book Scraper will chart its use across time. (The word thunderer has been used in 6 books in our database, the first mention being in Don Quixote - some 200 years before it became the Times' nickname.)
Link: http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/bookscraper/
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