Re:Hello... it's searchable. (Score 1)

yes, i did and i actually tried out the tool and did some looking around for Tolstoy's works. which i assumed to be outside of copyright proptection, but haven't looked into it. anyway, i was more thinking of searching the page I'm actually looking at, in the same way we CTRL-F web pages. agree with the picture books but that's a specific example and I dare say that's only very small minority of all published books. again I agree that must do some OCR to privide the search function, but then why not provide this in raw html for viewing? I'm thinking about readers of poor eye-site, babelfishing etc scanning a whole load of books is no doubt time consuming but I fail to see how this is high tech!? Surely the mass storeage requirements would be lower for text than images, not to metion browsing speed... CHeers