Google’s Answer To The Kindle?
If you ever get a craving for classic literature while on the go, Google’s just given you the ability to check out your favorite literary works via an iPhone or Android phone. Google’s Book Search currently features 1.5 million public domain books, which have all been optimized to fit a mobile screen. Unfortunately, Blackberrys and other non-Android operating system phones are out of luck in accessing this feature.
Google is using an extraction technology called Optical Character Recognition (OCR), that captures and formats the text from the page so that it can be easily viewed on a mobile browser. While users may not be thrilled to read Jane Austen’s work Emma while biding time on the subway, readers can access archived magazine content from widely read magazines such as New York Magazine, Ebony and Popular Magazine.
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