Comments on: Find digitized magazines via Google Book Search http://www.RexBlog.com/2008/12/09/18704 Rex Hammock's Weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:23:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rex Hammock http://www.RexBlog.com/2008/12/09/18704/comment-page-1#comment-312777 Rex Hammock Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:45:18 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2008/12/09/18704#comment-312777 Good points, Aaron. Makes little sense they want let you print out an article -- or if you wanted to save it online, the "add to library" feature that is a part of books found via Google Book Search is not available. Just for kicks -- and for you, Aaron -- I experimented with trying to access Google magazine/book search via the "experimental" browser on the Kindle. Unfortunately, it doesn't work there, either. Good points, Aaron. Makes little sense they want let you print out an article — or if you wanted to save it online, the “add to library” feature that is a part of books found via Google Book Search is not available. Just for kicks — and for you, Aaron — I experimented with trying to access Google magazine/book search via the “experimental” browser on the Kindle. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work there, either.

]]> By: Aaron Pressman http://www.RexBlog.com/2008/12/09/18704/comment-page-1#comment-312737 Aaron Pressman Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:30:11 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2008/12/09/18704#comment-312737 This is totally great & amazing & I'm thankful and all that. A few gripes - there's no way I can find to print the pages out or save them or transform them into a PDF etc. Reading long stories in tiny, sometimes blurry type on my laptop screen is non-optimal (and I'll repeat my complaint that Google book search ought to let you get something besides an image-based PDF for out-of-copyright books - ebook formats, anyone?). Also the search does funny things when it meets the all-too-common-in-magazine-world hyphenated word. A search for "Natalie Portman" found this 1997 New York Magazine article (http://books.google.com/books?id=FegCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22natalie+portman%22&lr=&as_brr=0&as_pt=MAGAZINES&ei=ilxASf66MofCzgTU0Ii4Dg#PPA70,M1) only because Natalie's full name was in a photo caption. The first reference in the article was "Natalie Port-" on one line and "man" on the next line. This is totally great & amazing & I’m thankful and all that.

A few gripes – there’s no way I can find to print the pages out or save them or transform them into a PDF etc. Reading long stories in tiny, sometimes blurry type on my laptop screen is non-optimal (and I’ll repeat my complaint that Google book search ought to let you get something besides an image-based PDF for out-of-copyright books – ebook formats, anyone?).

Also the search does funny things when it meets the all-too-common-in-magazine-world hyphenated word. A search for “Natalie Portman” found this 1997 New York Magazine article (http://books.google.com/books?id=FegCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22natalie+portman%22&lr=&as_brr=0&as_pt=MAGAZINES&ei=ilxASf66MofCzgTU0Ii4Dg#PPA70,M1) only because Natalie’s full name was in a photo caption. The first reference in the article was “Natalie Port-” on one line and “man” on the next line.

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