Every bibliophile around the globe would have let out a sign of joyous exclamation last Friday when Google announced that it has joined hands with its library partners in letting people download and print rare classics without any copyright. That certainly means something to go-crazy-when- find-book kind of people like me.
I'll be lying heartily if I say this is the biggest revolution in books-world since Gutenberg devised a method for printing, for a lot of e-books are now available, thanks to the internet. However most of those materials, if not all are pirated and people should answer the questions that their court of conscience would put forth and now with this great work by Google, that feeling of guilt can be done away with.
Trollope and Coelho and Ferriar and Abbot and Dante are now freely available with this advent and one would hope that the list of works made available only increases. No more hanging around and bargaining over in old bookshops or making wallets light in new bookshops, in pursuit of a rare book, for Google has made downloading and printing of classics free
I'll be lying heartily if I say this is the biggest revolution in books-world since Gutenberg devised a method for printing, for a lot of e-books are now available, thanks to the internet. However most of those materials, if not all are pirated and people should answer the questions that their court of conscience would put forth and now with this great work by Google, that feeling of guilt can be done away with.
Trollope and Coelho and Ferriar and Abbot and Dante are now freely available with this advent and one would hope that the list of works made available only increases. No more hanging around and bargaining over in old bookshops or making wallets light in new bookshops, in pursuit of a rare book, for Google has made downloading and printing of classics free
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