What are the major differences between Google Book Search and Project Gutenberg?
The major differences are that Project Gutenberg eBooks are yours to own, to edit as you see fit, to create new editions from, read in any font you choose, in any color you choose, any margins you choose and a host of other variables that are under your control. With Google’s eBooks, it’s more like reading over someone’s shoulders – you pretty much have to leave most of the control to them. (I hear that Google has constantly been promising changes to some things of this nature, but I haven’t actually seen the results). Also, Google does not provide a catalog of their eBooks. They don’t copyright research on their eBooks. They don’t make it trivial to download their books. They don’t proofread their eBooks – Why would proofreading be necessary if Google is just scanning print books into digital form? Google eBooks do not have the integrity of a single work, they are in fact two indpendent works, one a graphicial/pictoral representation and the other the actual kind of computer text we a
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- What are the major differences between Google Book Search and Project Gutenberg?
