This past week/weekend we went to Minneapolis-St.Paul for a wedding reception. For trips we have been getting books on CD from the library. They are great for those long hours in the car. We got a couple and decided on The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. It is a non-fiction book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED was compiled in a manner that would almost be considered Open Source by todays standards. The book ties in the history of English dictionaries, but focuses on a man who submitted over 10,000 entries and most were included. The kicker is that the submitter lives in an asylum.

It was a very educational and entertaining book. Randomly full definitions are thrown in which makes for a fun listen, but I imagine is something that a reader would just skim over.