Another email newsletter which may be of interest to E-Sylum subscribers is A.Word.A.Day, available at this address: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

The newsletter's current theme is words about booklovers, and for fun we'll publish some in the next few E-Sylum issues. Here's the first one:

So many books, so little time! Do you find yourself muttering these words as you browse the shelves in a library or a bookstore? Rest assured, you are not alone in your love of books. It was the Dutch writer Desiderius Erasmus who once said,

This fondness for books subsumes a wide range. At the extreme, books have been ascribed as the motive behind murders (Don Vicente, a Spaniard killed as many as eight people to acquire a book in 1836), and there have been thieves who steal only books (Stephen Blumberg of the US, stole precious books worth millions of dollars from hundreds of university libraries during the 1970s and 80s, all for his own pleasure, not for resale)."