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- keviniskool, on 05/03/2009, -2/+20Love that music in the background. Makes it sound like book porn.
- rabinowitz, on 05/03/2009, -7/+25Awesome!
- Peach3s, on 05/03/2009, -3/+16no matter how fast they scan it they still have to turn the pages.
- Laiden, on 05/03/2009, -0/+10***** Shakespeare. Why didn't he release his plays as PDFs?
- hackiavelli, on 05/03/2009, -1/+10No, they're crucial to healthy technological development. What's stupid is our current patent *system*.
- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -1/+10Look at this comment from that video "Given that books were never intended to be machine-read, it's impressive that they can be scanned at all" Anything would pop this kids mind
- Contradictions, on 05/03/2009, -1/+10Teachers have been telling students that for years. In fact, that's why they have libraries.
- Kardde, on 05/03/2009, -3/+10Would it be faster than this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
- greenlight2001, on 05/03/2009, -2/+8This technology isn't about speed, its about scanning books without having to destroy the book (cut the binding) to do so. If the book is rare, or borrowed, they need to keep it intact.
- greenlight2001, on 05/03/2009, -1/+7Let me rephrase... its about scanning books as fast as possible in which they cannot destroy the binding. So it's a combination of the two.
- jumpenjack, on 05/03/2009, -1/+6http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industr ...
there's ten you douche, i don't remember paying for one - feliphe, on 05/03/2009, -0/+5Google bans torrent sites, but they are the king of piracy, scanning books, spidering pictures and news
- maxtangent, on 05/03/2009, -0/+5How about the fact that a patent can be bought up and not developed as a way of suppressing technology?
Oil companies have been doing it for decades. - MavRevMatt, on 05/03/2009, -0/+5Google is Skynet.
- eldridgea, on 05/03/2009, -0/+4Yes, they finally resolved it:
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ - chesterjosiah, on 05/03/2009, -0/+4Nice comma splice.
- cliffzdude, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4Yes.
- scy1192, on 05/03/2009, -0/+3because he's a living being. You'd have to pay him.
- Pugmonkeys, on 05/03/2009, -3/+6They developed the technology at a cost to themselves, and now they are going to profit from it. Other company's will still be able to compete, and this should drive company's to develop there own even better technology.
If anything makes Google evil, its there massive about of information they store on everyone. This is just competitive business at its best. - L0NER, on 05/03/2009, -3/+6alot of this could be spared if publishers would just sell the PDFs
- MavRevMatt, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4Why the ***** are you replying to my comment?
- Contradictions, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4FTA: "I am not sure what kind fo technology the Internet Archive uses, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Google’s scanning operation is much faster."
So do they or do they not have an advantage? - jasdf, on 05/03/2009, -4/+6You don't know how the world works do you?
- jasdf, on 05/03/2009, -4/+6Google Books is a FABULOUS research tool. I am currently taking online college classes, and without Google Book Search I wouldn't be able to complete many of my written projects. At this very instant I have two tabs opened up with Google Books ("The Digital Avionics Handbook" & "A History of Army Aviation").
Until I started using Google Books, I assumed that every bit of information that I could want was online. However it showed me that real books have WAY MORE INFORMATION than websites. The information is consolidated, edited, and trustworthy. - Contradictions, on 05/03/2009, -1/+3Or a more opensource format.
- MavRevMatt, on 05/03/2009, -1/+3Google makes their money on ads.
And Google doesn't do anything significant? What the hell are you on? Google does many new and innovative things, and they're almost always free. Tell me of another company that does that. - jumpenjack, on 05/04/2009, -0/+2sorry i know it's hard to tell i was talking to poprock
- nyxerebos, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Wolfram Alpha is Skynet
- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1maybe skynet is skynet?
http://www.skynet.com.my/ - LilJimmyNordin, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Google hass bekumm awayeah.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1I misread the title as "Google Has A Competitive Advantage In Scanning Boobs"
- stoanhart, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1If publishers did that, they would unleash MP3-level P2P piracy on themselves. Why would they ever do that?
- vpshockwave, on 05/03/2009, -3/+4Not about speed?
FTA:
"It is so serious about capturing and indexing the knowledge stored in books that it has a patent, which was issued on March 24, 2009, on how to scan books faster than was previously possible."
"This results in much faster book scanning since each page doesn’t need to be flattened by glass plates and spines don’t need to be broken."
No, that is what they're interested in. Speed. - FearlessFreep, on 05/03/2009, -2/+3How is this 'evil'?
- arizona01, on 05/03/2009, -1/+2This isn't about scanning new books, otherwise they could just buy a copy, cut the spin, and scan it with a regular scanner. This is about archiving old book that are rare and cannot be destroyed during the scanning process.
- nyxerebos, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Agreed, anything touched by PDF turns to crap, it's the Crap-Midas.
- MattBD, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1It's got to be better than the way the books were scanned in Vernor Vinge's book Rainbow's End - shredded and sucked through a vacuum pipe which is filled with millions of cameras that take pictures of each page from every conceivable angle. Sounds far too imprecise and destructive, and if you got it wrong you'd need lots of patience and a LOT of sticky tape to put it right again.
- hoodedrobin, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1google is Ultron
- Paulish, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1I don't understand why they don't just break the binding and then scan it through a paper fed scanner. They could at least do that with the less expensive books.
- hackiavelli, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1Make them use-or-lose like other IP (trademarks must be enforced or the owner risks losing them, for instance).
- nyxerebos, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1I'd image cheaper is more important than faster. Afford more machines at the same speed for the same price, or the same number of faster machines. Either way, cost will determine advantage.
- vertigelt, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1And expensive books. Most of my college text books cost me $150 or so.
- nyxerebos, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Because the books they're scanning are on loan from University research libraries, who will want their books back.
- vertigelt, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1PDF is an ISO standard: ISO 32000-1
- Paulish, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Ah. Okay. Obscure books, got it.
- Snooper1989, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Google is numberwang.
- dariogaona, on 05/03/2009, -0/+0Google is cool, we love Google... hoops!!
- willhirsch, on 05/03/2009, -0/+0The huge moving part looks like it probably slows down the process. All the Google design appears to need to wait for is the page to be turned. Still, pretty smart design.
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