Re: Wired: The Great Library of Amazonia

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I read the article and thought it very nifty, but couldn't think what the
practical use would be ... my reading list before I even got to school was
over-flowing. However, I see it didn't take long for you to discover a use,
ego surfing!

BTW: I didn't even remember that you had a blog, IRC channel, nor RSS feed,
I'm adding it to my aggregator.

On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:17, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> amazon.com launched a new feature today: they allow anyone to
> search the full text of 120,000 books: 33 million pages that
> they scanned manually. Googling for related news articles finds
> this one, to appear in the Dec issue of Wired magazine:
>
>     The Great Library of Amazonia
>     by Gary Wolf
>     http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60948,00.html

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