Banned Books published by Google

Lens Hood Man writes "Marking the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week, Google is inviting users to celebrate their freedom to read by making Banned Books available to all. From the Google Blog: "...you can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged or banned." Those books challenged this year include 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lolita'."

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[adesm]

Yet again, slashdot acts as the fanboys in chief for Google. There is nothing to see here, literally. Google has plonked a few book titles in 'easy to use' clickable links then wrapped them up in a nice webpage. How much has google paid /. editors for these 'news' stories to appear day after day after day.
Reminds me of the old russian saying - "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda"

Re:Homework assignment

[arivanov]

As a matter of fact the bible WAS on the catholic church list of limited access book all the way till the list was abolished in the mid-20 century. You had to be a member of the clergy to have access to it. Commoners were not allowed to read it. This was one of the things that brought puritans, calvinists and their ilk into existence - the right of the Joe Average to have access to all Holy Books.