google books mobile
Feb. 19th, 2009 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI am an idiot. More people should point this out to me. Maybe.
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=_Ljso0aS6HQC&page_num=17
Google books _is_ supplying the scanned text for mobile reading. Sort of. The table of contexts (hit previous pages) is an image. The page I pointed at has the title of the book at the top, rendered slightly incorrectly due to the joys of OCR -- Cables instead of Fables.
So, yup, they are supplying their understanding of the scan, not just the scan. I want to know how many people are reading stuff this way.
ETA: Has anyone who lives within the kindle coverage area tried using the browser on the kindle to read google mobile books? Did google lock the kindle out somehow?
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/#Read?id=_Ljso0aS6HQC&page_num=17
Google books _is_ supplying the scanned text for mobile reading. Sort of. The table of contexts (hit previous pages) is an image. The page I pointed at has the title of the book at the top, rendered slightly incorrectly due to the joys of OCR -- Cables instead of Fables.
So, yup, they are supplying their understanding of the scan, not just the scan. I want to know how many people are reading stuff this way.
ETA: Has anyone who lives within the kindle coverage area tried using the browser on the kindle to read google mobile books? Did google lock the kindle out somehow?