Evidently, however, there are significant problems with the way Google is cataloguing the books it images. Laura Miller writes about it at Salon.com:
People at Google are also saying, "Let's crowdsource this," but that is a stupid idea. You and I are both smart, knowledgeable people, but I wouldn't trust either of us to do the skilled work of cataloging a 1890 edition of "Madame Bovary." It's very difficult. It has to be coordinated by uniform standards... And metadata is hard to fix if you don't get it right in the first place. Someone has to spend a lot of money to properly catalog a research library, and I don't know if Google understood that going into it.
Well, those are macro problems; Google Books will give micro me nothing but joy.
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