Sentences with phrase «to scan books»

Yes, consumers can go into bookstores and scan books for cheaper prices, but this won't specifically help them find new books.

Watching a book trailer is completely different from scanning a book at the library.

Of course, this would probably not apply on scanned books, unless they have been scanned at a very high resolution.

This would allow patrons to scan a book with their phone and automatically be able to purchase the digital edition.

People often will scan a book page by page until its complete.

While the technology has the potential to take paper books into the digital age, it remains to be how publishers will react to people scanning their books while just flipping through them.

In the past, digital publishers have turned a blind eye to piracy because most of them still think people are scanning books manually and posting the PDF file.

All anyone has to do is look at a book shelf in a store or scan the book lengths of books at an online vendor.

The company plans to add support for more languages so that you can scan books in regional languages to know more about it.

Book searches and information have also been improved; it's now possible to scan a book for all mentions of a character or related chapters.

Jisui, a Japanese concept that literally translates as «cooking one's own meals,» has grown into a buzzword overseas for the process of scanning a book in order to be able to read it on a dedicated e-reader.

Perhaps introducing a system that scans a book as part of the self - publishing process, then automatically categorizes the book as «Adult Erotica» with a subcategory of «Sci - Fi / Fantasy» if, say, more than 50 % (or whatever the threshold is) is pornographic material.

Google Books is an online database that contains a massive library of scanned books from the collections of public and academic libraries.

Each title has an RFID card embedded in the back cover that comes loaded with enough credit for 10 rides, which means that reader can simply scan their books at the turnstyle just like a normal subway pass.

The Internet Archive, in addition to its mission to scan books into its Open Library Project, has also begun collecting physical books as a preservation project.

The free Bookwire mobile device app lets users search for vital book information by scanning the book's barcode or by searching by book data, then saving the information or completing the book purchase.

It is a curious experiment in free markets and their evolution: the SF community was hit the hardest, with its tech - savvy readers scanning the books and supplying the OCR'd texts to the pirate «retailers» on the first day the book appears in shops.

The apps allow individuals to barcode scan books and read both community and expert reviews.

In 2002 Google begun scanning books and currently has over 30 million titles, putting it... [Read more...]

Authors Guild Gives Up Trying To Sue Libraries For Digitally Scanning Book Collection (Tech Dirt)

Got my 4th scan booked in at 36 weeks 3days so have to wait to see what the scan shows.

Meanwhile scan the book of abstracts for anything that arouses your curiosity.

You basically scan the book you are using as a source and this app will do all the hard work for you.

If you change the price, add new keywords or republish the book, that seems to kick start the algorithm to scan the book automatically for formatting errors.

Presumably, this will allow customers to scan book UPC codes and find prices on the B&N website... which might -LRB-?)

All of this is pretty confusing, but the new Google eBookstore is a subset of Google Books (Google Books is the enormous database that includes, among many others, the illegally scanned books that are the subject of the Book Search Settlement).

After uploading your DRM - free e-book collection, Libreture scans each book, records the title, author and other information and presents you with your library.

except you can get good scans without disassembling the book WOWC did not say whether the scans with clear signs of the centerfold would not be usable plus you gcan scan books one page at a time without showing the centerfold if you know how to do so without ruining the book

Sadly it does not do CBR scanned books.

Today, if I lived in Russia, Indonesia, Japan or any number of other countries, I could have a commercial service scan my books for me.

Not to be deterred, the city has adopted a new digital reading initiative that has users scan book covers QR codes and get free ebooks on their mobile phones and tablets.

I know that Amazon scanned my books because my traditional publisher DORCHESTER when confronted by my lawyer fessed up to the mistake in the case of one of my works (but did not fess up to the rest of the works, which apparently went on sale as ebooks 6 months later).

Though it hasn't gotten as much public attention, Google's practice of scanning books spawned a long - running lawsuit.

Scanning a book produces a set of image files, which may additionally be converted into text format by an OCR program.

New online publishing house Canelo's decision to recognise the importance of properly scanned books can only be good for the reputation of ebooks as a whole

Google's contribution here, beyond scanning the books in the first place, was to convert the text to the open ePub eBook format, which allows for proper lineation and formatting — something that PDFs can't always offer.

To me, it has something to do with Google scan book project, 30 millions of books digitized by search giant, «millions of them free».

I read almost all books that I review, so I disclose when I have merely scanned a book such as this.

In the «invisible people» category are works like Andrew Norman Wilson «s installation «Workers Leaving the Googleplex» (2010) tracking a personal account of discovering a fourth class of yellow - badge employees in the Google HQ hierarchy, who scan books for its digital library, when he himself worked for the major tech corporation.

SCANNING THE BOOK DISPLAY in the reading room at the Whitney Biennial, I was dismayed to come upon the pale - green and pink slip case of Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which I happened to be enjoying at home.

In May the Authors Guild and many other companies were granted Class Action status and there seems to be no end in sight on Google's ambitions to keep on scanning books.