Yet another major college library has paired off with a commercial book-scanning project: Yale University announced yesterday that it would post portions of its collection online through Live Search Books, Microsoft’s digital library.
Yale will start by scanning 100,000 of its English-language books that are out of copyright, according to a news statement.
Microsoft is sparring with two other groups in what has become a crowded book-scanning marketplace. Google’s much-publicized digitization project continues to add libraries to its roster, and the Open Content Alliance — which scans books and allows them to be indexed by any search engine — recently reached a deal to digitize volumes from the Boston Library Consortium. —Brock Read
19 Responses to Microsoft Will Scan Books From Yale U.
mbelvadi - May 2, 2012 at 6:48 am
lol
marcleavitt - May 2, 2012 at 7:40 am
That’s exactly the way I used to write in prep school. Bless you for reminding me!
jhanks - May 2, 2012 at 7:42 am
Yep, laughing like a maniac this morning. Thanks!
Carol Saller - May 2, 2012 at 9:10 am
I count 502.
eeels - May 2, 2012 at 10:08 am
Or, in the words of George Gascoigne, “And do you, if you will take my advice, eschue prolixitie and knit up your discourse as compendiously as you may, for breuitie (so that it be not drowned in obscuritie) is most commendable.”
maddavis - May 2, 2012 at 10:27 am
This is delightful. Thank you. Although I wonder: could one train oneself to compose blog posts in the same way that I, at least, consume them, that is, during those odd five- and ten- minute increments of free time? Could one learn to slide in and out of that writerly focus with ease?
11182967 - May 2, 2012 at 11:03 am
Brevity being the soul of wit, and wit (in the rather more 18th C. sense of skill with words) being my sole skill, I’ve found that emails and blog entries require an admirable focus on precision and concision. Whether communicating over my signature to an entire faculty, or anonymously to fellow CHE readers, or accidentally (and sometimes accidentally-intentionally) over my signature to “Reply All,” care must be taken with each word. Illustrations, subordinate points, and a touch of eloquence may be added as needed or permitted, but the care required to write effectively in these formats can focus one’s thinking as clearly as the proverbial “prospect of a hanging.” 500 words?–logorrhea!
Nathaniel M. Campbell - May 2, 2012 at 11:05 am
Equally apropos are the words of certain courtier by the name of Polonius:
To which the glorious Gertrude replies (all together now): More matter with less art!
haroldfs - May 2, 2012 at 11:33 am
What I find amazing is that if I’m not mistaken, this is one long sentence, perhaps the longest I have ever
come across in my life!
bashboom - May 2, 2012 at 12:36 pm
What restraint our blogger puts to good use: not a single exclamation point!
sciencegrad - May 2, 2012 at 12:47 pm
This post brings back memories of reading historical essays from 19th-century German historians.
big_giant_head - May 2, 2012 at 1:29 pm
In Faulkner’s short(ish) story “The Bear,” there is a sentence that is two and one-half pages long. My classmates and I vetted it with horror. It’s completely “correct,” needless to say. I wonder if anyone out there collects insanely long sentences?
yabba - May 3, 2012 at 9:51 am
yes he said yes he would Yes
fercho - May 4, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Wow. Wordy indeed.
Unemployed_Northeastern - May 4, 2012 at 4:04 pm
I see someone has deprived themselves of the joy of reading (among others) Jose Saramago, James Joyce, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Autumn of the Patriarch.” Saramago and Joyce routinely go on multi-page sentence benders, and If I am not mistaken (it has been some time since my last reading of AotP), Marquez’s last chapter is a single, 40+ page sentence.
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