Amazon geekery

Kuhaku, the book | Bookstores | Design | Life in Japan

Amazon's getting all geeky -- flexin' their data mining muscles and providing us with all sorts of useless (?) statistics.

For instance:

With Kuhaku you get 2.607 words per dollar or 3,851 words per ounce. This is out of a total of 265,483 characters or 46,825 words. She averages 19.1 words per sentence and only contains 10% complex words (non-native speakers rejoice!).

Some of the most common words in Kuhaku include husband, time, Japanese, day and Mike. (Mike?)

And perhaps the most fun statistic of all, "Statistically Improbable Phrases," of which, Kuhaku contains: pet pensions, rajio taiso, bilingual dog, canned coffee, feeling iii and father hunters.

Amazon is, by the way, selling Kuhaku for $17.96, which is almost cheaper than we get them for. So if you've yet to grab this easy read on pet pensions, rajio taiso and father hunters, now's never been better.

Craig Mod >> May 08, 2006
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