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Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story.


"... Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story. ..."

You are right, replacing one monopoly with another is one way to end the story. What is wrong with an open alternative?


Nothing wrong. The problem is that there's no such thing as a book any more. It's all just text. Any search engine will do.




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