Tag: books
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Book review: The Great Gatsby
Alan Morton-Smith Mindreign.com 29/09/2009 The Great Gatsby is a much-lauded book, and for good reason. It deals with a darker side of the American Dream, and charts the life of the eponymous Jay Gatsby — a mysterious, wealthy individual who is forever throwing extravagant parties for the great and the good at his beachfront mansion.…
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Google: The World’s Librarian?
Alan Morton-Smith Mindreign.com 21/09/2009 Google Books is an ambitious project, for which the ultimate goal is create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalogue of all books in all languages. To that end, they have already digitised about ten million books and made them discoverable online. It’s a key plank in the company’s strategy to “organise…