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

[Brian Sheppard]

Note that you can view the OCR'd text via Michigan's page-turner  
interface:

http://mdp.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mdp/pt?id=39015016881628;q1=%22great% 
20mass%20of%20information%22;start=1;size=25;seq=44;orient=0;view=text

On August 31, at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Gorman wrote:

> My suspicion is that Google is having not necessarily having a  
> better rate than many others and probably doesn't want things like  
> the error rate to be known.  Of course, nothing can compel them to  
> reveal these things, although I certainly hope people will try.  I  
> myself would like to be able to access text as well, it would  
> provide some material for some projects I have filed away in the  
> back of my mind.

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Brian Sheppard
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
bsheppard at library.wisc.edu    (608) 262-3349