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Google Books goes mobile
- tfincannon 18y agoGoogle has made a selection of "full view" books available in a format suitable for mobile browsers such as Safari on iPhone. Comparing the mobile title to the regular Google Book Search version, it appears they did OCR on the books. This doesn't work well for technical titles. They had to fall back to images for equations, and tables are not formatted properly. The result is often unreadable. Consider: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=pIlCAAAAIAAJ&page_num=15 http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=pIlCAAAA... http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=uU1WAAAAMAAJ&page_num=53 http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=uU1WAAAA... Kindle is not much better in this regard, although their QA is better.