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Read The Atlantic article I referenced elsewhere: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ https://www.theatl
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Read The Atlantic article I referenced elsewhere:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
The insurmountable problem is that Google doesn't have, and can't get the rights to distribute all these books. Even regular Google employees can't see them (and I tried when in Legal there).
So this is neither a hardware problem nor a software problem. Unfortunately.
- aragonite 3y agoYou are right! I was really thinking more about books published before the 20th century (which constitute the majority of my own usage of Google Books), and I had in mind something like a collaborative WikiSource integrated into Google Books. Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing it.