A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books | by Clive Thompson | Jan, 2022 | Debugger

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-01-22

Summary:

"Still, sifting through old books can be a hassle. You have to go to those search sites and filter for the right vintage (and public-domain-status). It’s a pain.

So: I decided to partly automate this — by making my own search tool.

Behold the Weird Old Book Finder....

Behind the scenes, here’s what it’s doing, which is pretty simple: i) You type in a query, and ii) my app sends it to Google Books, and filters the results for pre-1927 public domain. Then iii) it picks one at random and displays it to you...."

Link:

https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.books oa.pd oa.search oa.google.books oa.tools oa.floss oa.copyright

Date tagged:

01/22/2022, 16:22

Date published:

01/22/2022, 11:23