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Google Books or Great Books?
A learned - and long - article about books.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6714491.ece
A gold star if you read the whole article; and a place on Brain of Britain if you know the meaning of all the words.
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p.s. so did you read the whole thing, Jay??
I'm not sure I agree though that google's illumination of texts that would have gone unmissed, is making people step on to seeing the real works on paper. For that to occur, people would have to care about books...and frankly not many do any more. They want the shortcuts, not the scenic route.