how to keep google’s books open
Whip-smart law blogger Frank Pasquale works through his evolving views on digital library projects and search engines, proposing a compelling strategy for wringing some public good from the tangle of...
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Walt Whitman’s poem “Sparkles from the Wheel” beautifully captures the pleasure and exhilaration of watching work in progress: 1 WHERE the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day, Withdrawn,...
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the tomb of the book
“Vista de la Biblioteca Vasconcelos” by Eneas, on Flickr A lovely meditation at BLDG Blog on the architecture of storage facilities for unwanted books. Speaks volumes (as it were) to the anxiety of...
View Articlekindle maths 101
Chatting with someone from Random House’s digital division on the day of the Kindle release, I suggested that dramatic price cuts on e-editions -? in other words, finally acknowledging that digital...
View Articleno longer separated by a common language
LibraryThing now interfaces with the British Library and loads of other UK sources: The BL is a catch in more than one way. It’s huge, of course. But, unlike some other sources, BL data isn’t normally...
View Articlenominate the best tech writing of 2007
digitalculturebooks, a collaborative imprint of the University of Michigan press and library, publishes an annual anthology of the year’s best technology writing. The nominating process is open to the...
View Article“naked in the ‘nonopticon'”
If you haven’t already, check out Siva Vaidhyanathan‘s excellent Chronicle of Higher Ed piece on privacy and surveillance: a review of several new books treating various aspects of the topic, but a...
View Articlegoogle books API
Good news. Google has finally released an API (?) for Google Book Search: Web developers can use the Books Viewability API to quickly find out a book’s viewability on Google Book Search and, in an...
View Articlemajor news: IFB and NYU libraries to collaborate
A couple of weeks ago, I alluded to a new institutional partnership that’s been in the works for some time. Well I’m thrilled to officially announce that the we are joining forces with the NYU Division...
View Articlean opportunity to see Voyager’s Expanded Book series in its original habitat
Jason Ellis, now a prof at CUNY, made this video last spring to provide a detailed look at Voyager’s early efforts with electronic books.
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