http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/getting-dirty-with-google-books/ You just go on your nerve. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/getting-dirty-with-google-books/#comment-13022 » Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com Tue, 22 May 2007 22:37:02 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/03/27/getting-dirty-with-google-books/#comment-13022 [...] Jen Benkman, "Getting dirty with Google books," 3/27/07 I had my first experience with Google Books tonight. I was searching for the text of a poem to email to a friend. All I had in my head were the first two lines: “Is it dirty / does it look dirty”. That string plus “O’Hara” was enough to get me on track. I got the text I wanted, but I’m never really sure that people who repost poems have the line breaks and punctuation right. With poetry that stuff matters a whole lot, so I was pleased to find links to the Google-cataloged version of the book Lunch Poems, where the poem originally appeared. [...] [...] Jen Benkman, "Getting dirty with Google books," 3/27/07 I had my first experience with Google Books tonight. I was searching for the text of a poem to email to a friend. All I had in my head were the first two lines: “Is it dirty / does it look dirty”. That string plus “O’Hara” was enough to get me on track. I got the text I wanted, but I’m never really sure that people who repost poems have the line breaks and punctuation right. With poetry that stuff matters a whole lot, so I was pleased to find links to the Google-cataloged version of the book Lunch Poems, where the poem originally appeared. [...]

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