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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # getxbook getxbook is a collection of tools to download books from Google -Books' "Book Preview," Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" and Barnes -& Noble's "Book Viewer." +Books' "Book Preview" (getgbook), Amazon's "Look Inside the +Book" (getabook) and Barnes & Noble's "Book Viewer" (getbnbook). ## why @@ -33,18 +33,6 @@ You can easily use OCR software to get text versions of downloaded books, making them accessible to people who can't easily read from the page scans. -"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every -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) -* Richards, N M [The Perils of Social Reading](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031307) Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 101, No. 3 (2013) -* 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) -* Jeanneney, J [Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge](http://yanko.lib.ru/books/internet/google_and_the_myth_of_universal_knowledge-en-l.pdf) University of Chicago Press (2007) -* 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 @@ -53,3 +41,11 @@ Linux, BSDs, OSX and Windows. There is an optional graphical interface, built with Tcl/Tk. There are some simple scripts to create searchable PDF, DjVu, or plain text files from the downloaded pages, which use tesseract OCR software. + +## further reading + +* [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/) by Cindy Cohn & Kathryn Hashimoto +* [The Perils of Social Reading](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031307) by Neil M. Richards +* [A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Google](http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_1/fuchs8_1.html) by Christian Fuchs +* [Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge](http://yanko.lib.ru/books/internet/google_and_the_myth_of_universal_knowledge-en-l.pdf) by Jean-Noël Jeanneney +* [The Eternal Value of Privacy](http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html) by Bruce Schneier |