Tuesday, December 14, 2004

The most amazing thing

that I have heard for ages. Digitized books aren't the be-all and end-all (real books are better), but this collaboration between Google and a number of major research libraries sounds stupendous.
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  1. Jenny Davidson12/17/2004 2:36 PM

    Yeah, the things I use quite a lot are Early English Books Online and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, full-image files of every book printed in English up until 1800. Useful for many purposes, but still really not as good as a week at the British Library where you can use the actual books. I can read a real book much more quickly & remember more of what I read, even compared to printing out a whole book file and reading it--the quality of the text production affects reading speed and so on. Still, I am dying to see how this is all going to look...

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