Google Books
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"In 2010 Google Books estimated that there were about 130 million unique books in the world, and stated that it intended to scan all of them by 2020.--Sholem Stein |
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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.
In April 2013 Google Books's database encompassed more than 30 million scanned books.
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See also
- Google and the World Brain (2013)
- Google Play
- Digital library
- List of digital library projects
- A9.com, Amazon.com's book search
- Book Rights Registry
- Book scanning
- Runivers
- Universal library
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