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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.

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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.

What they share

Somebody else's work, opened properly.

Three of these are registers built by other people — the Open Library, the language record, the dictionary — and this estate's job is to open them without a wall in front. Where borrowing needs an account elsewhere, the page says so plainly instead of pretending it does not.