[Web4lib] Google Books a tease, not a useful tool, for serious research

[Roy Tennant]

On 7/6/07 10:36 AM, "Lars Aronsson" <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Oh really, less than three years after the project was announced.
> It took the University of Michigan's "Making of America" longer
> than that before they dared to expose the OCR text to readers.

The University of Michigan had exposed the OCR'd text as soon as they
released their copy of the Google Books via their Mbooks platform. This
predated Google doing the same by quite some time.
Roy