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@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ holds about you (which in the case of Google and Amazon is likely to be a great deal). Reading books is a critical component of thinking well, and, by -extension, of liberty. Limiting and monitoring it is a grave act; -it is censorship, whether its goal is profit or more direct -political control. And it is dangerous. +extension, of liberty. Limiting and monitoring it is a grave act, +whether its goal is profit or more direct political control. And +it is dangerous. The getxbook program downloads books anonymously. Using it will still result in your IP address being logged (use @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ the page scans. form of tyranny over the mind of man." - *Thomas Jefferson* +### further reading + +* Cohn, C & Hashimoto, K [The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to Online Reading](http://hlpronline.com/2010/05/the-case-for-book-privacy-parity-google-books-and-the-shift-from-offline-to-online-reading/) Harvard Law & Policy Review (2010) +* Fuchs, C [A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Google](http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_1/fuchs8_1.html) Fast Capitalism 8.1 (2011) +* Schneier, B [The Eternal Value of Privacy](http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html) Wired News (2006) + ## technical Each tool is written in around 200 lines of portable C code, with no |