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shimmergal

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Wed Sep-16-09 02:30 PM
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225. The "books are piling up" argument

assumes that books are fungible...oops, interchangeable. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I doubt any of us will see the day when ALL books published in the last century or two, even, are available thru IT. Google already faces much trouble in sorting out copyright issues for just the ones it's trying to put online. That's why we have the aggravation of getting a google cite to a single page, only to find it's useless for the topic we're searching.

Arghhh!

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