Words · six reading rooms
Books, languages
and the words in them.
The reading end of the estate. Four of these are registers of somebody else's work, opened properly — the Open Library's twenty million books, the world's languages, the dictionary and the rhyme index — and one is a collection built here, counted honestly.
Pick a door
Paper
The typewriter
A distraction-free writing room with no wire at all: a plain sheet, honest word and reading-time meters, autosave in your browser, export to .txt, .md, print or clipboard.
The Stacks
348 free IT books and 288 talks, searchable
636 entries on eleven shelves — 348 free IT books and 288 conference talks, each checked and linked rather than listed, inside 007, the IT arm.
Books
Twenty-four books, dealt at random
Twenty-four random books from the Open Library’s twenty-million-work catalogue, an access filter for what reads free, an honest door to the rest.
Tongues
Every language in the world
The register of the world’s languages: all 8,618 in Glottolog 5.3, each with its family chain, macroarea, countries and endangerment status.
Word Lab
Rhymes, definitions and the rest
One word on the bench fills seven ranked drawers of definitions, rhymes, sound-alikes, means-alikes and collocations, plus a crossword solver.
Book of Life
History as it did not happen
Alternative history in thirteen chapters, from the first fires to the Aquarian key — the branch that was not taken, with a PDF to take away.