Wired: The Great Library of Amazonia

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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

which is pretty good reading. As usual, I read the whole thing
without keeping notes on the stuff I found interesting, and don't
feel like going through it again, sorry. I did make a few notes
on the amazon feature on today's #fogo weblog. [1]

I still can't decide what to do about #fogo/fogo integration:
would people be annoyed if I sent a daily dump of the weblog
to this list? Or anyone have better ideas?

I'm not too enthusiastic about the daily digest thing, but the
only alternative I can think of would be to send a dump of each
individual item that gets posted, maybe after an hour or two
after the item has received no further comments on the blog.
But lots of the items I tend to post are too trivial/lame to
send as separate email messages.

[1] http://impressive.net/weblogs/fogo/2003/10/23/2003-10-23.html

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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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