tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940147318718213582.post2558174249766716484..comments2023-10-29T04:01:21.024-04:00Comments on Beyond Hall 8: Sold! Google to pay $125 million for scanning rightsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940147318718213582.post-81963727032522990472008-10-31T09:16:00.000-04:002008-10-31T09:16:00.000-04:00"You will, quite literally, have a library in the ..."You will, quite literally, have a library in the palm of your hand."<BR/><BR/>A library that will probably be very hard to read. Somehow the thought of page scans on a small screen just doesn't appeal. Even if reading applications provide magnifying features, the amount of sideways scrolling involved would be considerable. The OCR text available from Google may or may not be readable, depending on the age of the original.<BR/><BR/>Many people seem to forget the difference between electronic text, which can be reflowed and which is what Kindle and the Sony Reader provide, and possibly incomplete page scans with raw OCR, which is what Google provides.<BR/><BR/>Juliet Sutherland<BR/>Distributed ProofreadersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com