[Web4lib] A Brief Survey of Google Books

[B.G. Sloan]

  Duguid, Paul. Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books. First Monday, 12(8). August 2007.
  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/duguid/index.html
   
  From the conclusion:
   
  "The Google Books Project is no doubt an important, in many ways invaluable, project. It is also, on the brief evidence given here, a highly problematic one. Relying on the power of its search tools, Google has ignored elemental metadata, such as volume numbers. The quality of its scanning (and so we may presume its searching) is at times completely inadequate. The editions offered (by search or by sale) are, at best, regrettable."
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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