{"id":187769,"date":"2010-01-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8478828451854914653"},"modified":"2010-01-20T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T02:51:44","slug":"why-we-need-google-book-scanning-the-end-of-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/187769","title":{"rendered":"Why we need Google Book scanning – the End of Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"
At a small but classic library in West St Paul (which is south of St Paul, but on the “west” side of the Mississippi) I came across a book from my childhood: The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (1955)<\/a>. It’s a time travel book, full of cliches.<\/div>\n
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Except they weren’t cliches then.<\/div>\n
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At the above Amazon link you’ll find “We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.” That’s sad. The End of Eternity is not a classic book, but it’s a fun book by a man who wrote a lot, and got good at it.<\/div>\n
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Over at Google Books<\/a> we learn that the End of Eternity<\/a> was digitized Mar 25, 2008 at the University of Michigan. We can’t read it though. Under current US copyright law<\/a> it goes into the public domain at about the end of eternity. (You didn’t realize copyright was now effectively eternal? Missed that one eh?)<\/div>\n
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Google gets a lot of flack for their book project. I’m sure they’re imperfect, but I think they’re fundamentally right.<\/div>\n
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Go Google.<\/div>\n
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Update 1\/20\/10<\/b>: Ok, so I could have picked a better example. Charlie Stross tells me I should have looked a bit longer<\/a> (52 reviews, 5 stars<\/b>). It seemed like such a good example at the time! In my defense the reviews are quite old, and refer to the book as “hard to find” in 2000.<\/div>\n
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Update 1\/20\/10b<\/b>: Charlie wrote this long post today<\/a>. Google is not his friend. Mea culpa.<\/div>\n

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