Comments on: Google digital humanities $$ http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=889 Kimberly Christen Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kim Christen http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=889&cpage=1#comment-31017 Kim Christen Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:30:27 +0000 http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=889#comment-31017 Craig, those are not my words, it's all Google's very own hyperbole! Craig,
those are not my words, it’s all Google’s very own hyperbole!

]]> By: Craig Bellamy http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=889&cpage=1#comment-31016 Craig Bellamy Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:33:32 +0000 http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=889#comment-31016 Hi Kim, thanks very much for your wonderful blog and directing me to the Google Digital Humanities award. A small error is that you claim that "Google has so far digitized over 12 million books in over 300 languages – a significant fraction of all books ever published". I know Google seems monumental, but there are many more books than this. There are more books than this in the University libraries in my own city, Melbourne Australia. There are perhaps 700 million books in the University Libraries in the US. There are Billions of books ever published; Google doesn't even come close and never will. It is a good project but the rest is hyperbole. Hi Kim, thanks very much for your wonderful blog and directing me to the Google Digital Humanities award. A small error is that you claim that “Google has so far digitized over 12 million books in over 300 languages – a significant fraction of all books ever published”.

I know Google seems monumental, but there are many more books than this. There are more books than this in the University libraries in my own city, Melbourne Australia. There are perhaps 700 million books in the University Libraries in the US. There are Billions of books ever published; Google doesn’t even come close and never will. It is a good project but the rest is hyperbole.

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