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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'."
China will just see a big photo of Mao when you try to load the books on Google. Maybe they could get a backdrop of the glowing fire from a pile of books being burned too!
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HINT: both involve overloading of terms.
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Great! I've been meaning to read up on some musical history.
This guy's the limit!
these books are actually banned? this lists sounds more like a list of required-reading books than banned books.
These "Banned Books" lists that librarians like to trumpet tend to be lists of books which were ever banned anywhere by any library at any time, not books which are banned today. So if they can find that some old biddy in Vermont in 1903 didn't like "Huckleberry Finn", it goes straight on the list. The conclusion that you're supposed to draw is that Literature is Under Attack Even Today by Reactionaries who are hiding under your bed.
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Exactly!! I finally understand why book publishers are running scared. All these Limited Previews and Find Libraries links are totally destroying their buisness model.
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I guess this means that Google is going to be banned in Alabama libraries? I'm assuming they have libraries in Alabama.
Kidding! Of course they do.
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Reading this article I tried to find Nabokov's novel by searching for "lolita" on google. Considering the number of results this definitely looks like a popular novel but how come isn't Nabokov Book the first result?
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