[hellbannedguy]

I think about Google's scanner project a lot. I wonder if they are still scanning?

I would love if they found a way to offer those books (authors would have to agree) to the world.

If they did, I would forgive them for tracking me all these years.

I'd even put up with ads in the books.

[david_allison]

They do if the books are out of copyright, and they're often copied to archive.org (and then transcribed via Wikisource) when this happens.

sample: https://books.google.im/books?id=Me8CAAAAQAAJ&printsec=front...

[floathub]

And you can order a bound paperback book made from the scans of just about any out-of-copyright google book. From the Harvard Bookstore (or anyone else that has an Espresso Book Machine):

https://www.ondemandbooks.com/as/?t=Hamlet&c=google