[Web4lib] Google Allows Downloads of out-of-copyright Books

[Marc Truitt]

Umm... am I alone in thinking that scanning of this sort of information 
is not all that far removed conceptually from putting circulation 
records out on the web?  I realize that the card is in the book, but 
still, do we *need* to scan it and make it available in this fashion?

- mt

Crocker, Daniel wrote:
>  As per usual, Google makes the in-depth searching and access to
> information more complex than it needs to be, but provides a lot for
> users just looking to goof around. Who checked out this 1911 book in
> 1973, for example?
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=usrqi6EAsHgC&pg=PT11
> 
[remainder deleted]

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