14 DAY TRIAL // Right. Books being digitized. Libraries running out of real human beings walking through their doors and going to the librarian for help. Librarians - on the brink of extinction? Save the librarians, take one home today. Possible idea for a campaign against the digitizing which I'm totally opposing.
As much as I don't agree with it, I must admit that it might turn out to be a good step for the Internet as a whole, because of the much easier access to all the information in the world at just a few keystrokes. That would be the best thing about it, the worst would be the ease to copy/paste something, instead of just having to read something and filter it through your brain before jotting it down in a draft of the final paper you must be working on, if you have gone this far with your search.
Google's Book Search insider blog has announced today that four gadgets were launched in order to ease the path of those going digital for the massive amounts information needed. The first one's called "Google Book of the Day gadget (beta)" (most creatively, I might add, nobody could have ever thought of that word combination for the tool) and the other three are specifically designed for one of the categories: Books, Scholar, and Patents.
They are the first such initiatives of the sort and you can add them to your iGoogle page to discover the books you love or need in order to get to the next level of knowledge required. It's like in videogames, you need to find this book to learn the code for that door and you have to search all throughout the current level for it. Now, it's just as easy as checking your email or looking for porn on the Internet (I'm saying that because the web is more than 80 percent filled with pornography). It's type and go technology at your disposal. Use it wisely.