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Google Book Search disappoints the scholarly searcher

University of California professor Geoffrey Nunberg has taken a critical look at Google's book search and found it's metadata lacking -- though he does find room for a little hope.
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Elemental Stylism

Jonathan Yardley at the Washington Post wrote a lit­tle praise for Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style a cou­ple of days ago, which drew some crit­i­cism from Jan Freeman at the Boston Globe and some follow-up crit­i­cism from var­i­ous blog­gers across the Web. It make me think about the “lit­tle book.” I’ve owned a copy [...]
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