Internet Libraries
November 6th 2006 12:32
One day the internet may replace libraries.
Google is perhaps the leader in the field of digitalizing books and putting them on their search engine Google Book Search. Another company in the loop doing this is Questia
The books are scanned into Google’s/Questia's database and made available to search for by the public.
While not all books are allowed to be downloaded or accessed in their full, you can find where you can purchase them or borrow them from a library.
Libraries may soon start replacing their search software with this, if Google can include the database of them all, or custom tailor the software for specific libraries, finding books you wanted would be infinitely easier.
Google is perhaps the leader in the field of digitalizing books and putting them on their search engine Google Book Search. Another company in the loop doing this is Questia
The books are scanned into Google’s/Questia's database and made available to search for by the public.
While not all books are allowed to be downloaded or accessed in their full, you can find where you can purchase them or borrow them from a library.
Libraries may soon start replacing their search software with this, if Google can include the database of them all, or custom tailor the software for specific libraries, finding books you wanted would be infinitely easier.
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Amazing how we have an entire encyclopedia, with images, sounds and movies that fit on a DVD/CD which on its own is like 50 pages from an encyclopedia thick and about 1/3rd its length.
What google is doing is taking it to the next step with normal books, maybe we'll see a dvd collection being released that contains every book in googles database sometime in the future..
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And great way to make me feel ancient, Ahmed!
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Can't imagine wading through those books for one thing, nowadays you just mishmash it and you have it...
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Well, in terms of raw popularity they are definately the biggest, and knowing google, if they arent the leader this week, they sure as hell will be the next (I smell a questia buy out in the works if they really are the leader).