Your Own Google Books Library, and More Annotated
This update is provided by Philipp Lennsen who writes for one of my favorite blogs (Blogoscoped).
I continue to be drawn to things that could change the classroom and I really think Google's initiative with Google Books has the potential to be an amazing teaching resource.
A list of items that I highlighted from the article--see link at the top of this entry for the article in its entirety (including the full annotated version).
your library is RSS-ified for others to subscribe to, and you can export it using another custom XML format listing title, author, ISBN and such. Importing books is possible as well by providing a list of ISBNs.
Google's embed dialog also allows you to directly blog something with Blogger, or add it to Google Notebook.
The Google Books project, formerly called Google Print (project name "Ocean"), continues to evolve aiming to become "the" book search center with an abundance of research options and data mining features, like maps integration, or the new popular passages.
Right now the biggest obstacle for users I see are the often confusing separations between public domain books, partner books and library books.
And why shouldn't I be allowed to clip fair use passages from copyrighted books, for instance?
In related news, the New York Times reports that both Amazon and Google will be entering the ebook market this year.
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