Google Book Search: Access to 2 Million Books, Now on Your Mobile Phone
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by GD
“What if you could also access literature’s greatest works, such as Emma and The Jungle Book, right from your phone? Or, some of the more obscure gems such as Mark Twain’s hilarious travelogue, Roughing It?” Google Book Search makes 2 million copyright-free books in English available on the web browser.
The posting from Inside Google Book Search discusses the thorny issue of optical character recognition (OCR) and difficulties in rendering text captured by that method.
