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Google Optimizes Book Search for Mobile
WebProNews Feed —
... Google has launched a long overdue mobile version of Book Search for the iPhone and Android. This includes access to over 1.5 million mobile public domain books. Books on this version have been optimized to be read on small screens, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do. A post by the Google Book Search Mobile Team ...
Google Just Added 1.5 Million Books to your Phone
jkOnTheRun —
... . Basically, if you can get to http://books.google.com/m on your phone’s browser, you’ve got access to all of these titles. Bear in mind that public domain titles aren’t going to include many modern books, but with 1.5 million choices, there has to be something for everyone. ...
Google releases Books browser for iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... linkup to Webscription.net -- but it is awesome, and completely free. To check it out, you just need to visit http://books.google.com/m on your iPhone or iPod touch (and you might as well bookmark it, because you never know when you'll want to read a little Shakespeare or Dickens). ...
Google Book Search Mobile for iPhone puts 1.5 million books in your pocket
MacDailyNews —
... but we'll continue to make enhancements to our OCR and book structure extraction technologies. With this launch, we believe that we've taken an important step toward more universal access to books," Google's team explains. "If you do bump into some rough patches where the text seems, well, weird, well, you can just tap on the text to see the original page image for that section of text. Happy mobile reading!" To try it out and start reading, fire up Safari on your iPhone and go to http://books.google.com/m . [Attribution: PC World. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Carl H" for ...
Google Book Search for iPhone
Top iPhone News —
... of page images made by digitizing physical copies of books. These page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone’s small screen.
Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short).
Just point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m. Happy mobile reading!
[via Google Mobile Blog] ...
Google Book Search for iPhone
iPhone Buzz —
... composed of page images made by digitizing physical copies of books. These page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone's small screen.
Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short).
Just point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m. Happy mobile reading!
[via Google Mobile Blog]
Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader: Watch Out Kindle
Macworld —
... yesterday mobile editions of its entire book collection. Google used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to transform the scanned book pages into screen friendly text for iPhones and T-Mobile G1s. To access Google Mobile Book Search, just point your mobile phone browser to http://books.google.com/m . Book Search for PCs displays scanned images of pages and Google openly admits the OCR technology used to make these pages small screen-friendly can have drawbacks. "Smudges on the physical books' pages, fancy fonts, old fonts, torn pages, etc. can all lead to errors in ...
Google Books for iPhone adds 1.5 million reading choices to iPhone/iPod touch
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone and Android devices. Just go to books.google.com/m in your mobile browser. You can search for a title, author, or subject. Or you can browse the list of "Featured books" and various categories like business and economics, the classics, science and math, travel, and more. Once you've picked out a book or two, you can easily get back to your selections by clicking on the "Recently viewed books" under the "My ...
Google books iPhone-friendly; Amazon Kindle books next?
AppleInsider —
... Published: 12:00 AM EST Google has made its online catalog of books available in an iPhone-optimized web viewer -- but Amazon is dropping hints it will expand its previously exclusive Kindle e-books to support other mobile devices. On Friday, Google launched a mobile Google Book Search with finger-ready navigation for iPhone and iPod touch devices as well as handsets using its own Android mobile operating system. The move gives iPhone owners access to about 1.5 million books available in the US (and about 500,000 international books) in the public domain either through ...
More Ebooks Available for the iPhone/iPod touch
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... less useful than an actual iPhone app that would let you read when you're on a plane, unable to pick up 3G wireless data service, or using an iPod touch out of range of a Wi-Fi network. For that, one of the ebook apps in the App Store would be better. I wouldn't be surprised to see either Google or another company figuring out how to make books from Google Book Search available offline in the future as well.
To visit Google Book Search from your iPhone or iPod touch, go to http://books.google.com/m.
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What's New for iPhone
Google Mac Blog —
... Google Book Search
Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on your iPhone. You can search for a title, author, or subject. Or you can browse the list of "Featured books" and various categories like business, the classics, travel, and more.
Learn more on the Google Book Search blog or start reading at http://books.google.com/m. ...
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