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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.
With all of these great works online, will the masses bother to read them?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
"evolution is still news to some individuals of our species"
....
i.e. the ones who haven't yet evolved
No but, yeah but, no but...
could you please remind yourself, that the internet is international? most non-US readers will not understand this combination of words. thanks.
Which is one reason why a university education is largely a scam anyways.
The schools are out to rape the students out of their money, the student then pick this up and only attend to "boost their earnings potential".
Which is why I give humanity all of about 50-75 more years [75 being generous] before we're reduced to cave paintings and hair on our backs.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.