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Google, an internet giant that has been scanning and digitising books for inclusion in its search engine, now offers thousands of books that are in the public domain free on mobile phones.
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It makes perfect sense to use the specificity of a search engine as a tool for selling books.
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Google claimed at the time it was protected by the "fair use" principle because its book search engine showed only short snippets of text for the books it had scanned without permission.
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Legend has it they were so avid to perfect the collection that they had soldiers search every vessel entering the Mediterranean's busiest harbour for books.
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Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in perpetuity within the Library's digital archive.
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For years, students have had to search through volume after volume of books before finding the right formula but no more.
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He started Goleft.tv, a liberal Web site, writes books like In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers and is launching a magazine extolling plaintiff lawyers.
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The Yellow Pages Association (also known as the Local Search Association), which is the trade organization for the phone book industry, counters that phone books are in fact made only from recycled paper and sawdust.
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Google is also likely to continue long-term bets including driver-less car technology and an effort to scan all the world's books and make them available on the search engine, both of which were pet projects for Mr. Page.
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