Comments on: Google Books: Embed Book Clips Into Websites

By: PareshL

PareshL — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:14:05 +0000

guys where is d link to download tht tool to copy from google books…i m not finding tht plz help me

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Kwout, A Simple Quote Tool For Bloggers — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:16:59 +0000

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The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #71 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:45 +0000

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By: 老兵不死，只是退伍

老兵不死，只是退伍 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:55:19 +0000

Google Book Search 新功能…

在中文書籍資料還沒齊全前，我先觀望一陣子好了 :Q

剛看到新聞，今天是 Google Book Search 的大日子，發表了許多新功能，簡單說就是 collect、share、discover 三部曲：收集自己的書庫、分享書中….

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Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:19:34 +0000

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links for 2007-09-19 at James A. Arconati — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:22:02 +0000

[...] Google Books: Embed Book Clips Into Websites Google Books released a useful new tool this morning – the ability to embed parts of public domain books directly into other websites and/or Google Notebook. (tags: blogs google google/books books web-developer web-developer/tools) [...]

By: NickyD

NickyD — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:19:41 +0000

This entire scan & digitize project seems to be heading to a deadend. So much for the librarian’s dream.

By: dbai

dbai — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:52:04 +0000

Yeah, terrible OCR…

By: isedb.com

isedb.com — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:41:40 +0000

Embed Book Clips Into Websites With Google Books…

Google Books released a useful new tool this morning – the ability to embed parts of public domain books directly into other websites and/or Google Notebook.

You can choose between a text of an image to embed….

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:00:05 +0000

yes I agree. There was so much hype initially when google books/print started. but at the end, if this is the outcome, then it is bad.

By: Mario Ruiz

Mario Ruiz — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:56:00 +0000

Dear Michael,

Reading the reactions more than the original post, for some reason I can feel that Google is not the “so cool tool,” it used to be.

I you remain private you can still enjoy some of the reputation you work hard many years to have. Once you go public, then it does not matter what you do, will be “corporate America.”

Little unfair, such is life!

Mario Ruiz
http://www.oursheet.com

By: rob

rob — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:54:11 +0000

reminds me of scripd.com

By: V

***V*** — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:38:15 +0000

Interesting took from Google

I love how it looks like a page from a book. Very . . . “real” looking

By: LivePaola

LivePaola — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:24:33 +0000

The main limitation of this service, IMHO, isn’t technical, but legal: you can use it with “any public domain book” in Google Books. That excludes the last several decades of books. Blogging does not appear to be fair use. And copyright, as has been argued many times before, is way too long.

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:10:13 +0000

Not being able to copy-paste the text makes this Google tool less useful, for me.

Doesn’t Google have OCR scanners?

Maybe that’s for “version 2.0″ ; )

By: Rajesh Shakya

Rajesh Shakya — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:34:12 +0000

It’s a great tool. I can see an extensive use of this google book reference feature in research and citations. Would be much better if Google fixes the image link to source issue.

Rajesh Shakya
http://www.rajeshshakya.com
Helping technopreneurs to excel and lead their life!

By: Ritu

Ritu — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:46:59 +0000

This is a great tool for all! Thanx for providing this info the very day it was introduced.
worknplay.net

By: BanjoPlayingHamster

BanjoPlayingHamster — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:41:58 +0000

My only real problem is that google books isn't a very viable option for people who have published outside the mainstream publishing industry, with ISBN and all.

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:19:16 +0000

Google Books: Embed Book Clips Into Websites…

Google Books released a useful new tool this morning – the ability to embed parts of public domain books directly into other websites and/or Google Notebook….

By: BeingParents

BeingParents — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:16:48 +0000

This will be a great resource for bloggers.
It is amazing the amount of free content available for
FREE online. Sharing is great and web 2.0 rocks.

Thank you GOOGLE.

By: Richard Crowley

Richard Crowley — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:13:28 +0000

Google’s OCR is /awesome/! “TREATS OP THE PLACE” and “BIRTH AMOXG other” and such.

By: Shambhu Borah

Shambhu Borah — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:04:14 +0000

Stick with the image version or your own screenshot since the OCR still misses quite a bit.

By: gilltots

gilltots — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:02:09 +0000

anyone who wants to be embedding book clips into their websites can use my site as well… (”embedding book clips” is also known as “copy/paste” for the uninitiated.)

it’s too hard to read a photo of a deteriorated printed page – project gutenberg takes the approach of typing up the books digitally…you still run into problems when there’s images, or the typist decides to add their own dedication, or they decide to correct things that don’t need correcting, etc, but it’s still nice to have the books in text format.

unfortunately it’s a lot harder to get people to read a book on a computer than, say, watch a video of a cat flushing a toilet.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:59:41 +0000

I’m not sure of the utility. While Google has been, and most likely will remain, pretty stable, if for some reason this service was off-line or discontinued, all the remote references to passages you’re quoting would disappear. This is different than doo-dad, gee-whiz widgets which are “extra” content rather than the main content. There’s also a risk that the WRONG sub-content could be served up, thereby making what you’re quoting and the context to be different. It would be much safer and future-proof to just cut-and-paste the content into your document/web-page where the entire thing would then be self contained. If students and academics find this useful, they should be concerned about part of their content being dependent on someone else. And you’re allowed to do that anyway with public domain works. Of course, embedding from services like Scribd and youtube have the same issue; Scribd more so because things can more easily be edited and go through different revisions, what you’re “quoting” of the work could be changed out from under you; youtube less so because it’s been more of an “archive” rather than works in progress, the video is either there or it isn’t.

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:55:19 +0000

does the quoted material copy into the blog sans-punctuation, like it does here, Cormac McCarthy style?