I can see how it could be done, but it'd take quite a long time. Google submits the images to bookshare, volunteers pick them up and OCR/edit them. Might not work for reference works that well, but it's a start. And they'd have to have a good connection because tif images are pretty large, though I'm not sure of the dpi on those google books. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: google books
Julia, that would be wonderful! (big smile) Google has a vast collection of books, and they do want to work with Bookshare. Can you imagine having access to a million books on every conceivable topic under the sun? -- Monica Willyard Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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