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Is Google Good for History?
- Pahalial 17y agoA interesting essay. Given there was a bit much introductory praise, I'll excerpt the crux of his criticism: "In short, complaining about the quality of Google’s scans distracts us from a much larger problem with Google Books. The real problem - especially for those in the digital humanities but increasingly for many others - is that Google Books is only open in the read-a-book-in-my-pajamas way." He also comments on the conspicuous absence of Google Books on their Data Liberation Front page.