HathiTrust’s Top Most Accessed Volumes, May 2014

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Huh. Why would a book published in 1914, about treating lung issues with kerosene, top the list? Why would there be so much interest in that item?

A book like that probably has no relevance at all to a doctor, but it might be interesting to historians.

In any case, we don't know the actual number of times these books were accessed. It's possible that the vast majority of books were accessed zero times, and any book that was accessed just once would have made it to the top ten.

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