Words · nine reading rooms
Books, languages
and the words in them.
and the words in them.
The reading end of the estate. Three of these are registers of somebody else's work, opened properly — the Open Library's twenty million books, the world's languages, and the dictionary with its rhyme index — and the other six were built here.
Pick a door
Paper
The typewriter
A plain sheet with word and reading-time meters, autosaved in your browser and exported as .txt, .md or print in one press.
The Stacks
The IT arm’s reference library
348 free IT books and 288 talks on eleven shelves, searchable, every link checked and pointing to its own free source.
Books
The Open Library, dealt at random
Twenty-four random books at a time from a twenty-million-work catalogue, with search and the free reads marked.
Tongues
Every language in the world
All 8,618 languages in Glottolog 5.3, searchable by name or code, with each one’s family, countries and endangerment.
Word Lab
Rhymes, meanings and more
One word fills seven drawers of meanings, rhymes and sound-alikes, every chip a new lookup, plus a crossword pattern solver.
Readability
A text’s reading grade, six ways
Paste English text for its reading grade by six published formulas, with the longest sentences and hardest words marked.
Book of Life
History as it did not happen
An alternative history in eleven chapters, from the first fires to the Aquarian key, to read here or take away as a PDF.
Tests
Nine exams, every figure sourced
SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE and five more as their testing bodies publish them, every sitting counted down, with a study plan.
SAT
Next sitting, format and 700 colleges
The digital SAT as College Board publishes it: the next sitting counted down, the two-module format and ranges at 700 colleges.