Latest entry of interest from Word Spy this week...well-booked adj. Having access to a substantial number or a wide variety of books.
Example Citation:Bill McCoy, the general manager of Adobe's e-publishing business, says: "Some of us have thousands of books at home, can walk to wonderful big-boxbookstores and well-stocked libraries and can get Amazon.com to deliver next day. The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will be not on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who areunderserved by ordinary paper books." It is these underbooked - students in Mali, scientists in Kazakhstan, elderly people in Peru - whose lives will be transformed when even the simplest unadorned version of the universal library is placed in their hands.-Kevin Kelly, "Scan This Book," The New York Times, May 14, 2006
Read the whole article on google's digitization project - available from the Canadian Newstand database via your local public library website...
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