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Continue reading →: The vagaries of Google Book search
Goddamn I love free books! Yes free. Download em if you doubt me. For instance: The Causes of the French Revolution by Lord John Russell (Longman, London, 1832) is available free for download here. Which is kinda crazy. Of course as we mentioned before you can get the text already…
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Continue reading →: Google News Archive! This is very important
Blink and you will miss it Many of the book readers amongst us will have missed the Launch of Google Archive. That’s okay I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. Google hardly made a huge fuss over it and not many people have noticed beyond a cluster of techies and…
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Continue reading →: Penguin don’t get it
I am pretty disappointed now. Penguin came back today at the critics. This at least is a good show. But instead of taking on board the criticism they are resisting. It seems a little foolish. The idea is clearly excellent but the execution is terrible and that is the origin…
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Continue reading →: They build you up just to drop you right down again
Penguin run a wonderful blog. And recently they promised an exciting idea: the serialisation of a novel like the glory days of Dickens. Well the official word is out and it is very dissappointing. Not only is the idea expensive (£25.00 for 10 issues delivered direct to your door seems…
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