{"id":307,"date":"2007-11-27T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/27\/million-book-project-flawed\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T13:51:47","slug":"million-book-project-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/million-book-project-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Book Project Flawed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are told that &#8220;the Million Book Project has exceeded its goal of digitizing one million books by 2007. &#8221;   Well, I can think of a million books that I&#8217;d never want to look at, and I can think of a million books that I would give up my life to preserve.  Or your life, at least.Which million does the Million Book Project address?  And how?  And why?<!--more-->I don&#8217;t know about why, but I am deeply offended and seriously worried about the &#8220;how&#8221; part &#8230; about the fact that the very first words you encounter if you go to the US site of the million book project are:<em>&#8220;Use Internet Explorer to&#8230;..&#8221; <\/em> (look at these books).Uffda!I assume nefarious, evil, underhanded things involving Bill Gates and possibly some unsuspecting innocent animals &#8230; either as sacrificial objects, or possibly as object&#8217;s of Mr. Gates affections &#8230;. I don&#8217;t know, one hears things that one would prefer not to believe or even think about&#8230;  Anyway, evil nefarious things have presumably happened if the first thing the ultimate book digitizing project has to say is &#8220;Use Internet Explorer&#8230;.&#8221;It is simply disgusting and very troubling.I assume the site is using a Microsoft backend because, well, the site does not actually work very well, if at all. So far I have not seen a single book among the million book site&#8217;s collection because I keep getting server errors and timeouts.  Nothing else.  They may have digitized a million books but, at the moment, we are not allowed to see any of them.Somewhere along the line, somebody made a bad decision.  I won&#8217;t say any more until I have learned the details.  Nor will I give you the link.  I don&#8217;t give links to dead sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are told that &#8220;the Million Book Project has exceeded its goal of digitizing one million books by 2007. &#8221; Well, I can think of a million books that I&#8217;d never want to look at, and I can think of a million books that I would give up my life to preserve. Or your life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/million-book-project-flawed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Million Book Project Flawed?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[154],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}