Re: More About Google's Deal with U of Cal
- From: goopfic@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: More About Google's Deal with U of Cal
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 Bowerbird@[redacted] wrote:
> as i have said in the past, many times now,
> we need to harvest google's scans ourselves,
> as individuals, working collaboratively (and
> not using "robotic" or "automatic" methods),
> then make 'em freely available to the public.
It would seem that, as of this morning, Google has added a "Download PDF"
link to their public domain texts. What you get seems to be a much
higher-resolution set of scans than the "zoom=3" version available through
the browser interface, with a page of usage guidelines prepended to the
file. The PDFs are not encrypted, and they make no effort to prevent
printing or content extraction.
I've tried downloading a few books so far, and I'm very pleased by the
quality of this addition, at least at first glance. Thank you very much,
any hidden Google people who may be lurking about!
--Mark