Book People Archive

Thanksgiving; new women writers exhibit; and new Google Books features

Mary and I will be visiting folks for American Thanksgiving and will
be offline for the next four days.  Submissions and requests
received after about noon Eastern US time might not get acted on for a while.

Mary has a new special collection featured on A Celebration of Women Writers:
"Diplomatic Difficulties".  You can view it at

    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

For more about the selection of books in the collection, see her blog at

   http://merrigold.livejournal.com/

(The formerly featured collection on the Women's Building at the Chicago
World's Fair is still on the site, but is now on its own page.)

I've also been informed that the Google Books interface has changed
substantially.  If you haven't been there lately, you might want to check it
out.  Here's one example of how it now looks for a full-view book, in this
case Joseph Altsheler's _The Horsemen of the Plains_:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=zxjmp9KzRUsC

People are already finding interesting new uses for this and other
large-scale searchable text collections.  Here's a Slate article, for
instance, that speulates on how it can be used to uncover cases
of long-past author plagiarism:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/?nav=tap3

May we all have much to be thankful for this season--

   John