LittlenoThing ([info]littlenothing) wrote in [info]libraries,
@ 2004-12-14 09:38:00
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what I've been dreaming of
NY Times article, we're not being taken over, we're just becoming the greatest information conglomerate of all time...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?ex=1103995216&ei=1&en=13dd0e3ecbb038b7


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[info]cleverusername2
2004-12-14 06:53 am UTC (link)
I find this very interesting, though I worry that $10 a title might be a bit steep for such a long-term project. I hope that Google won't go into extravigant spending spree. I hope that the books are not destroyed in the scanning process. Notice that they are only able to publish books no longer under copyright.

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[info]gudenna
2004-12-14 07:01 am UTC (link)
i can't shake this creepy feeling that i am getting after reading that.

i understand the good in it. but still there's that creepy feeling.

i'm probably just hungry.

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[info]cleverusername2
2004-12-14 07:11 am UTC (link)
I think it is a bit too early to worry, they will find that managing organizing and retaining huge digital collections is a bit more complicated than it seems.

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[info]gudenna
2004-12-14 07:24 am UTC (link)
i blame the creepiness on my neverending fear of the movie terminator. computers going crazy. carrying guns, traveling through time. thankfully though, books haven't grown opposable thumbs. we're okay.

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[info]cleverusername2
2004-12-14 07:37 am UTC (link)
I'm more worried about the beginning of the book "The Handmaiden's Tale" where the main character has a job working in a library scanning books, and destroying the hard copies because they were seen as no longer of use. Later on a right wing religious theocratic regime takes over the country and it is revealed that the digital copies were destroyed as well, and the whole scanning operation was just a subtle method of censorship where the libraries were being used as unknowing accomplices in the destruction of controversial books.

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[info]gudenna
2004-12-14 07:44 am UTC (link)
but does your version have austrian arnold in it? noooooo.

i'll have to go creepy myself out and read that book now. great. and i'm supposed to be getting obsessed with harry potter right now.

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[info]cleverusername2
2004-12-14 11:56 am UTC (link)
Supposed to be getting obsessed? Are you under orders? A spell perhaps?

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i've been wanting to sink my teeth into something.
[info]gudenna
2004-12-14 01:54 pm UTC (link)
see what had happened was.

harry potter is looking more inviting than the anna karenina i'm reading.

it's quite fun to get obsessed over something. just remember though. some*thing* not some*body*.

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[info]barbarakitten_t
2004-12-14 07:11 am UTC (link)
this was done with project gutenberg on a much smaller scale years ago. of course michael hart and co. were all volunteers.

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