Hathi Trust Opens Doors to Text-Mining Scholars

Big news from Indiana University: "The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), a cooperative service of Indiana University, University of Illinois, and HathiTrust, has expanded its services to support computational research on the entire collection of one of the world’s largest digital libraries, held by HathiTrust. HathiTrust’s collections include over 14 million digitized volumes, including more than …

The worst love letters no one’s ever read

In honor of Valentine's Day, we're posting a few pages from a one-sided collection of love letters that make up a French epistolary novel called Lettres de Bendé, a Monreset.  The novel has an imprint of Amsterdam (fictitious?), and is dated 1762.  A researcher in France recently emailed us with a question about this book, …