"text mining"<p>Hmmm. It's not so easy to do this with ebooks viewed in a graphical ebook reader. Note he didn't say "text search". He said mining.<p>Does this suggest noncommercial library books will offer research capabilities that commercial ebooks will not?<p>I want my ebooks in ASCII format. And that certainly goes for textbooks.<p>less(1) is my "ebook reader".
Dear Google,<p>Please resume scanning books, old magazines and newspapers, which you "paused" some time back. It was sensible to take a wait-and-see approach until this decision was reached.<p>Thank you.