Friday, September 15, 2006

Google resurrects the dead


Dead literary icons, that is. Google has digitized out-of-copyright books for everyone to read.

Step 1: Think of a dead author (say, Austen or Dumas)
Step 2: Go to Google Book Search and click "Full view"
Step 3: Download PDF file
Step 4: Print

You can also search for snippets of copyrighted material.

Is this the web's payback for print's slow death?


Current location: Dijon
Weather: rainy but not cool
Travelogue to follow next week (mahal ng Internet!)