>I was listening to some old WAMU shows, one of them >was about Google scanning and OCR'ing books and the >legal arguments that were going on between the >publishers and Google, etc. How did that ever turn >out?
Just yesterday I was reading pages from a scanned book about Apple's iLife suite at Google Books. Depending on the copyright status, the number of pages available will be limited. Since the book I was looking at was recent there were large gaps. Some of the information I was looking for was absent. But there were other books on the topic. So I was able to find out what I needed to know. They provide links to order the book and other related Google ads. It is a great resource for looking a book over before ordering it on line. Similar to the scanned pages that Amazon sometimes provides, but Google was much easier to use and not as sluggish. If I decide to use iLife for an upcoming project, I will definitely buy several of the books I say on Google Books. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************