[Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?

[Campbell, James (jmc)]

The Kindle now supports PDF, so getting a PDF converted is no longer an issue. See
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200324680
My Sony Reader and many other e-readers of course have long supported PDFs, though the readers with smaller screens can really only handle those that are text-based.  Plus Google now also provides downloads in the ePub format, and programs like Calibre or Savory (which actually runs on the Kindle) can convert both PDF and ePub to the MOBI format which will work on Kindle.

And then someday there's the iPad and the many iPad clones now under development.

      - Jim Campbell

      Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
      University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112

      513 Alderman | campbell at virginia.edu | 434-924-4985


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dan Ream
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:32 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?

I agree with Robert's question/ point--Google books in pdf are great for 
lookups or chapter reading,
but are users actually satisfied with a 200-page or longer pdf when they 
request a book?

I have enjoyed reading a full novel on the newer version of the Kindle, 
but still
tend the think most library users don't have a Kindle and those that do 
would rather
not pay Amazon to convert a pdf file.

--Dan Ream
   Virginia Commonwealth University


Robert Balliot wrote:
> Was ILL in the original format requested still an option, or was it a
> scanned book or nothing at all?
>
> This<http://books.google.com/books?id=xNo1AAAAMAAJ&dq=rembrandt%20paintings&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=1970&as_brr=1&pg=PA957#v=onepage&q=&f=false>
>  does
> not equal the book.
>
> R. Balliot
> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:44 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> A couple of days ago a doctoral student mentioned to me that she'd had an
>> ILL request cancelled by her university library because the full text of
>> the book in question was available via Google Book Search (GBS).
>>
>> I'd never thought of that before. Just wondering how many libraries are
>> checking GBS before going ahead with an ILL request?
>>
>> Bernie Sloan
>>
>>
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