Greasemonkeyed GoogleBooks

Late last night, too late to get a good night’s sleep for today’s shift, I was “google talking” with Edward Vielmetti of Superpatron fame. Earlier in the day I had seen a post on Jessamyn’s librarian.net talking about Google Books and how you can’t get a “find in a library link” for all the books…This is something I’ve been thinking about for many months — and I I left a copy of one of my emails to google in the comments along with a plea to conquer this. Shortly after I left my comment – Ed buzzed me about my blog entry on Broken Library Buildings and I ranted a tad about google books, asking him if he thought a script was possible. I pointed out the librarian.net article and he left a comment — then told me he was gonna hack at it…This was at 2 in the morning. When I woke up this morning, the script was done. Awesome. I am Geekified.

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One Response to Greasemonkeyed GoogleBooks

  1. heidi says:

    I emailed Google about the “Find in a Library” in Google Books (basically asking why it’s not there). Apparently there is a distinction for them between Google Library and Google Print (looks like that is Google Books). My assumption is that anything that has been scanned via the Google Library project and is included in the Google Book Search is probably what is tagged for “Find in a Library” and everything else is not.

    I haven’t checked out Ed’s site in about a week, it’s so cool to have a Superpatron around…I can’t wait to check out the new script!

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