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Scan Your Books And Search Them On Google
- jganetsk 17y agoGoogle really needs to market its lesser-known products better.
- pmjordan 17y agoAbsolutely. If I've understood the article correctly, I can refer to my books even when I'm out of the office? This is brilliant, I wish I'd known about it sooner. One thing I don't quite follow: it's easy to find out the ISBN number of a book you don't own on amazon or so, which would allow you to add arbitrary books. I don't see how they get away with that.
- troystribling 17y agoThe access they provide is nothing beyond what you would get doing a normal Google book search. It just allows you to search over aggregations of books which you may or may not own.
- dchest 17y agoThe title is kind of misleading. It's not about scanning books, only scanning barcodes.
- theschwa 17y agoSo... Anyone want to make the Android app for this?
- dazzawazza 17y agoCool, that nearly the same as my app http://www.beepmystuff.com http://www.beepmystuff.com except I use amazon and a USB web camera.
- tlrobinson 17y agoRemember CueCat? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat If you still have one of those, you can hack it to output unobfuscated barcodes, which will work with this: http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm
- yters 17y agoSo, uh, how do we scan our books then? I've got way too many dead trees in my house.
- quizbiz 17y agoI would love to be able to prove ownership and get full access to the book/override the limited preview. I put in the ICBM of Founders at Work, but Google only permits its limited preview. My plan was to take the book to my college dorm when I move in late this summer, but I guess I will do without Chapter 19 and Chapter 28.