On 3/17/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/
> top_1000_books_in_libary_colle.html
Heh! I just got the Radar O'Reilly MASH pun. Pretty funny.
> One outcome is the list of the Top 1000 works in library holdings
> [2]. The top ten: The Bible. the US Census. Mother Goose, the Divine
> Comedy, the Odyssey, the Iliad, Huck Finn, Lord of the Rings, Hamlet,
> Alice in Wonderland. A lovely browse for book lovers.
>
> Using a different metric -- the number of different editions* -- the
> top ten fiction works are Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Alice in
> Wonderland, Treasure Island, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, A Christmas
> Carol, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, David Copperfield.
What I find interesting is how many of these popular works are in the
Public Domain.
Thaths
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