Google Book Search: Users speak

[shockeyk]

While this video hinted at what might be possible 3 years ago, Google eBooks delivers a new vision for accessing the world of words. It's incredibly exciting to imagine spreading these words into the farthest corners of the world. Truly awe inspiring, when you think of it....

[blackboy1313]

Respond to this video...

[rogermoore27]

Indeed! Google is amazing for bringing some of the most hard to find books on a wide range of subjects. I am from Trinidad and none of the books that I now enjoy exist in the libraries here. Thank you Google!

[JanDeluxe78]

Google Book Search helped my immensely with my thesis (political science). I saved a lot of time I would have otherwise spent searching for sources, and at most times I wouldn't have found them in the libraries, even in the German National Library.

[okinasevych]

The PhD student has a rather large tome propping up the monitor on her desk! Is this a deliberate editorial comment on the value/purpose of books after they're digitized? Hmm.

[JAMIDFF]

Google books let me find concepts from very reliable sources, and I try to find out this books. It is good, now I can read, and find out many very good information that is difficult to find in my library. Now I spend less time finding specials topics because it also search into the chapters ¡it is amazing!

[system0system]

that thing with dresses just killed me , people have problems really

[Denth]

lol embarrassing

[iantony]

wow, amazing! Congratulations to these research students... welcome to the 21st century ! Every single computer science undergrad is laughing their asses off right now...

[landerspatrick]

Google Book Search stands on a delicate compromise between, on the one hand, the interests of society in progress by making information and research more easily accessible, and on the other,preserving the incentive system inherent in the copyright system that allows authors to make a living by producing research and advancing social progress. One way to tweak the balance might be to shorten the length of time in which copyright affords protection.

[sebastianlewis]

It's not that complicated, it allows you to search the full text of the book but if the book is still in copyright then you only get a limited view. If it's out of copyright you can probably download the whole book, and of course the video mentions the right hand navigation that lets you buy the book or check it out from a library and because of that it can actually help sell more books without infringing on the copyright itself.

Sebastian

[africalive]

Google Books is an amazing new resource of particular use to historians.

[superRuss1]

Oh yeah Jo Goodley! We Britons, just love to socialise on our roads, anyone for a street party. Historians shouldn't be allowed to get PhDs if this is the sort of tosh they do studies on...

[superRuss1]

Another User Speaks:

Google book search is a pile of poo. It never lets you see the information you searched for because of copyright issues!

And if you are going to do a PhD on the British Road system why the frig did you do it in California! Were you worried your carbon footprint wasn't big enough and needed some transatlantic flights to make it more substantial?

[cmdrjudas]

Surely its better to see a little bit of a book within the copyright laws, than not to see anything at all?

[df747jet]

amazing...the internet is bringing people back to the classics.

[Tuxster3]

DEFINITELY!

[wAtHaPpEnEdHeRe]

1st wooooooo