Google's Library Up and Running

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Google Print results are beginning to appear on searches. For those who don't know, Google has been scanning from libraries from some of the world's greatest universities in order to compile a freely accessible online library. An easy way to turn up these results is to simply type "book", and then whatever you want to search for. For instance, book origin of species will turn up the full text of Charles Darwin's controversial treatise. 20,000 leagues, Oliver Twist and Pride and Prejudice and m o r e are all there in full. It'll be interestin to see how publishers deal with this if demand for these books declines. In the meantime, would anyone like to point out any good books?" Hopefully, Google can also start to index some books that are being released in the Creative Commons/alternative open licenses.

Comments

Re:Holy Bible?

[Scott7477]

It's not that surprising when you consider the demographic of Google people; probably one of the least Judeo-Christian oriented groups of people in the country.

Re:textbooks

[tin foil hat dude]

Since you are a Republican I cannot understand why you would not pay the $120. After all, you are supporting your republican fat cat bretheren. I would think that you wou;ld be HAPPY to pay the $120.

Re:Get around context menus

[DoorFrame]

I'm pretty sure that killing jews and raping little girls was what their corporate creed was meant to prevent google from doing. I didn't come up with the phrase, they did, and if they seriously meant to use it to prevent their employees from engaging in a little holocaust on the side, then they have much bigger problems then my complaints about a context menu.

Sig Modded Flamebait

[dunc78]

I'm going to change my sig (well, guess I would need to make an original first) to "P.S. I know this post will get modded flamebait". It seems to be a surefire way to get modded either +5 interesting or +5 insightful