Comments on: Google Just Added 1.5 Million Books to your Phone http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: biiehjk http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412637 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:18:35 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412637 zNglyl anbofvvbwiej, [url=http://rczpjcgmpacj.com/]rczpjcgmpacj[/url], [link=http://uxevnywwppva.com/]uxevnywwppva[/link], http://upgegxilvzix.com/

]]> By: D Hammond http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412636 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:17:44 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412636 Just in ! Google has old magazines now like old Popular Mechanics or Popular Science for your reading pleasure :

http://books.google.com/

]]> By: D Hammond http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412635 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:57:01 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412635 The good news is it works on an old Gateway pen tablet.Just resize the window down to the size of a Samsung,Blackberry or Iphone size screen and scroll away down like reading a long single column in a real world newsprint paper.

It should work great for notebooks and those real small sub-notebooks almost as a widget/gadget,although it may have started out for folks with the snazzy phones.

]]> By: Rob Halligan http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412634 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:02:27 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412634 On my BlackJack II with WM 6.1, it won’t load in Pocket IE or Skyfire…feeling like I live in a WM ghetto.

]]> By: Aaron Pressman http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412633 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:15:56 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412633 This is so close to perfect, at least for older books, and such an improvement from the PDF-y view they used to have. Now if only they would add plain text download in addition to PDF download! I blogged a little more about this and linked here.
http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=697

]]> By: MarceloR http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412632 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:08:06 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412632 The select-and-click on for original could be a good feature. The idea is the same as locating the result of a search on an OCR’d PDF but it could use a lot more work. I went scouting for mathematics book and found none in the Science and Math section. Well, there are a few physics books with equations in it. Since OCR for mathematics is currently an extremely difficult nut to crack, well beyond Google’s prowess, I would rather just be presented with a choice to see the original scans wholesale. I have about sixty books that I personally ripped apart, fed to a sheet feed scanner and then generated PDF’s from them. With some patience for all the scrolling, I read them on my iPod Touch, well barely…

]]> By: Art Kavanagh http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412631 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:01:21 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412631 I tried it on the iPod Touch and I have to say it seems a bit buggy, so far. I was trying to scroll through the “Browse categories” scree and it kept shooting back to the first category I’d looked at. Very frustrating.

]]> By: animatio http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-just-added-15-million-books-to-your-phone/#comment-412630 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:42:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=29149#comment-412630 might become a costly reading experience considering online costs for reading connected by mobilephone

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