It's not just public domain books up there. Type Ender into the search box.
I wonder if OSC is part of the group launching the suit against Google for this?
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
It looks though like there are heavy limits on this. You can only view so many pages of copyrighted material. I just tried browsing one of OSC's books and it only let me look at like so many pages after I logged in. It said it made me login to make sure that I didn't see too much of the copyrighted material.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
You only get like 4 pages of any non-public book it looks like.
Of course I can't find any public-domain books to see if you can read the whole thing.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
It seems to be a publisher opt-in program, if I'm reading right.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Add "date:1500-1923" to the query and you should find some books under the public domain.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Was looking at Moby Dick on it, and some of the pages are upside down. Then it kinda locked up, so I'm figuring their server is getting hit pretty hard with traffic of people checking it out.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Thanks, THT.
quote:It seems to be a publisher opt-in program, if I'm reading right.
Not quite. There are many books at several libraries that are being scanned without publisher permission. There was an op-Ed in the Post about it earlier this week.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Hmm...I've tried looking up various things that are in the public domain, ie Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, the Bronte sisters, etc, and apparently if the printed edition date is after the public domain cutoff, then you can't view the novel itself, even if that part is old enough. But they seem to have a lot of stuff like literary criticism from the 1800's where the full text seems to be available, which is really cool.
I will have to remember this for later...could definitely be useful! Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
And Google transforms the world, yet again. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Oh, no doubt, Dag. But I was specifically talking about the Google program, which, according to this page, seems to make it out to be an opt-in program. Now, they may be stretching the truth, but their advertising seems to suggest that they're trying to avoid putting things up without permission.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
I wonder if this would help people trace their genealogy records. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:Public domain books will look very similar to publisher-submitted books except you will be able to click through all the pages of the book. For library books still in copyright, you'll be able to find the book in your search result, but we will only display bibliographic information and a few short snippets of the book. All library books will have the Find this in a library link which allows you to find that book in a nearby library. Take a tour through a few screenshots to see what books from a library look like and the features available on each type of the Google Print Screenshots page.
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