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Andrew Piper announced yesterday that the McGill text lab is releasing their corpus of modern novels in three languages. One of first thoughts with any corpus is: what existing Bookworm methods might add some value here? It only took about ten minutes to write the code to import it into a bookworm; the challenge is figuring how methods developed for millions of books can be useful on a set of just 450.