google books
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Apps To Keep You From Dying Of Boredom On A Long-Haul Flight
In a single month of 2017, I spent upwards of 90 hours in the air, and probably just as long sitting in airport lounges and standing in queues — I travel a fair bit for work. I always have a laptop and a couple of phones with me, but juggling them all is a pain.…
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Google Wins Right To Keep Scanning Millions Of Books For Free
Nearly a decade after it started, the lawsuit between the Authors’ Guild and Google over its book-scanning program has been thrown out. This means that Google can keep digitising millions of books for free distribution, and that fair use is in the public’s best interest.
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A Man Built A Car From 1906 Using Google Books
That beautiful car is a brand new 1906 Oldsmobile Model B Runabout. Yep, Bob Ferry used Google Books to find old magazines that described mechanics, showed pictures and gave descriptions of the Oldsmobile so he could build it a 100 years later.