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Ammon Shea is the author of two previous books on obscure words, Depraved English and Insulting English (written with Peter Novobatzky). He read his first dictionary, Merriam Webster's Second International, ten years ago, and followed it up with the sequel, Webster's Third International.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 787 ratings · 262 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages 3.60 avg rating — 671 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads 3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea 4.27 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Depraved English by Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that comes from finding a set of books, dusty and tucked away in the back corner of some store? The computer can only reproduce the information in a book, and never the joyful experience of reading it.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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“Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....”
― Ammon Shea, The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads

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“One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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