<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Personally, I think this is a really cool idea, though not one without danger. The advantage is having a virtual catalog of everything ever written, something that rivals the Internet Archive. I'm not sure though if this catalogue will contain multiple prints of each book, but that is something it should certainly include. Hopefully it will include copies of print magazines as well. The possibilities of having the entire library searchable is simply enormous. Google has also purchased a web company that had digitized newspapers, so you can expect them to expand into this area as well.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>There will be multiples by virtue of the fact that Google is not checking what it scans -- they're scanning everything from every partner. I don't know whether they'll actively practice LOCKSS or not, though.<br>