diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5bd66b..97fc7bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,6 +98,23 @@ And here is an example with a two-level hierarchy:
 
 Note that if the `count` is `1` you can omit it.
 
+Entire lists of tokens can be added for a particular address in one go using `add(address, term_list)`:
+
+```python
+>>> import termdoc
+>>> c = termdoc.HTDM()
+>>> c.add("1.1", ["foo", "bar", "bar", "baz"])
+>>> c.add("1.2", ["foo", "foo"])
+>>> c.get_counts()["bar"]
+2
+>>> c.get_counts()["foo"]
+3
+>>> c.get_counts("1.2")["foo"]
+2
+
+```
+
+
 You can **prune** a HTDM to just `n` levels with the method `prune(n)`.
 
 You can iterate over the document-term counts at the leaves of the HTDM with the method `leaf_entries()` (this returns a generator yielding `(document_address, term, count)` tuples). This is effectively a traditional TDM (the document IDs will still reflect the hierarchy but the aggregate counts aren't present).
diff --git a/termdoc/htdm.py b/termdoc/htdm.py
index ca87dba..de6ef2e 100644
--- a/termdoc/htdm.py
+++ b/termdoc/htdm.py
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ def increment_count(self, address, term, count=1):
             address = self.address_sep.join(address.split(self.address_sep)[:-1])
             first = False
 
+    def add(self, address, term_list):
+        for term in term_list:
+            self.increment_count(address, term)
+
     def load(self, filename, field_sep="\t", address_sep=None, prefix=None):
         address_sep = address_sep or self.address_sep
         with open(filename) as f:
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index 573b543..9f0cbc5 100755
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -336,6 +336,16 @@ def test_two_arg_increment_count(self):
         self.assertEqual(c.get_counts()["foo"], 3)
         self.assertEqual(c.get_counts()["bar"], 3)
 
+    def test_add(self):
+        import termdoc
+
+        c = termdoc.HTDM()
+        c.add("1", ["foo", "bar", "bar", "baz"])
+        c.add("2", ["foo", "foo", "bar"])
+        self.assertEqual(c.get_counts()["foo"], 3)
+        self.assertEqual(c.get_counts("2")["foo"], 2)
+        self.assertEqual(c.get_counts("1")["bar"], 2)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()