[Web4lib] Microsoft releasing book search in beta

[Lars Aronsson]

B.G. Sloan wrote:

> "Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to 
> Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday."

So I went in there and, to try it out from a Swedish perspective, 
I typed "Strindberg" in the search box.  And the first title that 
came up--oh, the irony of finding this with Microsoft's aid--was 
anarchist Emma Goldman's "The social significance of the modern 
drama" (1914).  Yes, Microsoft is helping me learn how to 
overthrow government and capitalist society with the help of 
books!

The PDF download link leads directly to the Internet Archive and 
this was the only bookmarkable link I could find.  I don't know 
how to link to the book on Microsoft's website.

This book is available as proofread e-text from several places 
already.  The OCR text in the PDF from the Internet Archive is not 
proofread.  Nonetheless, since the book does open with 
Scandinavian writers August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen, I decided 
to convert it to Project Runeberg's format where it can now be 
proofread once more.

You can find it at http://runeberg.org/sigdrama/

This is not the first time Project Runeberg re-releases a book 
from the Internet Archive, but it's the first time we attribute 
Microsoft for the scanning.

(There is a misleading copyright mark on that page, which I should 
find a way to remove.  The copyright mark is automatically 
inserted when an author has been dead for less than 70 years and 
Emma Goldman died in 1940.  But since her work was published in 
the USA before 1920, the work is surely in the public domain.)


-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/