"HI I'm Paul, and I'm an info-holic."

I am addicted to information. I love to learn new things, and I love incorporating new knowledge into what I already know of my world. 'Trivia' is my pornography.

So I got quite a thrill recently when I came across a reference to the "Index Translationum", and found out about it at the UNESCO website:

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


"The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The Index Translationum was created in 1932.

By publishing this list, to serve as a reference work, UNESCO provides the general public with an irreplaceable tool for making bibliographical inventories of translations on a worldwide scale.

The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totals more than 1.800,000 entries in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every four months."


I'll probably never need to use it, but just the fact it exists thrills me. I mean, not just a list of books published around the world, a list of translations. That's like double-porn!