First Google Print books launched
The first full works to be scanned and put online as part of Google’s Print project have been unveiled. If you have not been over to the Google Beta Print site we suggest that you go take a look now! I really wish that this was online when I was in college. To be honest I first started using Google back in 1999 when a college professor told our class to learn to love it. Boy was she right!
Books about the US Civil War, government papers and the writings of Henry James are among the works donated by project participants for the first group of online works. “Today we welcome the world to our library,” said Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, in a statement. The entire text of these works is being put online by the search giant’s digitisation project. The text will be searchable and users will be able to save images of pages. Google has enrolled Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and Oxford University in the digitisation project.
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