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Comment on Thoughtful slacking by Eric Nystrom

Eric Nystrom — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:56:11 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out One point, though — for most texts, Internet Archive has the “Flip Book” option (in the menu on the left) which allows you to read the book page-by-page. If you search for a term, it even puts little tape flags in the virtual pages where the term appears, which is nice.

Also, let’s not forget about Project Gutenberg. In speaking with Lloyd the other day about Darwin, I reminded him about IA and he reminded me about PG. Fewer texts than Google Books for sure, and probably fewer than IA, but totally Free (as in Speech) and nearly all of them in glorious ASCII!

Comment on Cheating by Eric Nystrom

Eric Nystrom — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:33:41 +0000

The Internet Archive has been pursuing digitization of out-of-copyright texts as well, though not with the gusto of Google. However, IA has a far greater commitment to Openness, and their digitization projects produce much higher quality output. I always check there first, and sure enough, they have Sprat. Lately some Google-digitized books have been showing up in their listings, but IA-generated content is available too where it overlaps, as does Sprat.

An additional thought here — what Google giveth, Google can, and has, taketh. I’ve long been in the habit of grabbing every old digitized book I think might eventually be useful, and so have spent, at times, many hours downloading runs of old technical journals (for example) from IA and Google Books. I recently went back to GB to fill in some gaps in a series I’d downloaded a couple of years ago, and was a little surprised to find that some of them weren’t available any more in Full Text — they had been moved to Snippet View or even made unavailable.

Comment on It’s almost (time to) March! by Grant Samuelsen

Grant Samuelsen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:57:22 +0000

Great to see that the adventure (or lack thereof, I suppose) continues. We all miss you and hope all is going well with and beyond this totally genius project of yours.

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eraser’s blog » Blog Archive » Embedded Google — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:33:04 +0000

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Comment on Re-entry by Tina Russell

Tina Russell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:00:56 +0000

I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.

Tina Russell

Comment on Google in the News by thanos

thanos — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:48:52 +0000

Thanks kindly for the linkback, and I am interested in how your experiment wraps up as well as your conclusions. In the interests of repaying the favor I’ve posted about your site at LGF, you might see a bit of traffic.

Comment on Branded versus owned by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:52:07 +0000

This is going great. Thanks for sharing so much.

More than half way home!

Siva

Comment on Embedded Google by Embedded Google | How to make a website

Embedded Google | How to make a website — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:58:27 +0000

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Comment on Embedded Google by Eric Hundin

Eric Hundin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:32:38 +0000

I found your blog on MSN Search. Nice writing. I will check back to read more.

Eric Hundin