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Comment Re:Why Isn't Google Books A Library? (Score 3, Funny) 160

With all the class act talent that Google hires right out of college, why can't Google create its own Public Library on the Internet? Chrome could be the entry way to any book that is in the Public Domain, or by the Authors written permission. Turning the page of a book could be as simple as the [Back], or [Next] button. The "Card Catalog" would be a No-Brainer. No Library goes through these many hops. There's even translation to other languages, Brail, and Audio; from my viewpoint, this SHOULD be the challenge, not what word category is or isn't. If it's a case of "buy the book", then to buy 10 copies of "Gone with the Wind", and ONLY allow up to 10 readers to ONLY read "Gone with the Wind". Google could even have a "Google Online Library Card"; this is were the company hums "Ka-Ching".

I think that's the idea, perhaps you should go check it out: http://books.google.com

Comment Re:Does Google destroy the books after scanning? (Score 1) 160

The impression I get from these stories is that once Google scans them, no one else can. Is that somehow the case?

Yes, once Google scans them they gather up all the copies and burn them. Just kidding, any one is free to scan them and put them online too. Microsoft used to scan books, and the Internet Archive has it's own scanning project that is still ongoing (but they might be restricting themselves to out of copyright works, I don't know).

Comment Cue the "OMG Google book monopoly" slashbots (Score 1) 160

Please give it a rest, anyone can scan all the books they want and post them online. The only problem is that the law hasn't established an efficent way to get the right to post books online. If Google had tried to do this with the laws current they would have had to figure out who owned the right to every book. Imagine how much the internet would suck if search engines had to do the same thing.

Also to get back to the topic at hand, it looks like they are trying to fix this as best they can and libraries have errors in them, it happens. zomg.
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