Don't Forget to Take Your Android to the Bookstore

Google has announced a book-text search tool called the Barcode Scanner that works with an Android-powered cellphone. According to Google Book Search engineer Jeff Breidenbach, when you download the software into your Android and point your phone camera at a book's barcode, "it will automatically zoom, focus and scan the ISBN - without you even needing to click the shutter...You'll then have the option to search the full text of the book on Google Book Search right away"

It works only on books published in the last ten or fifteen years, when barcode technology was perfected. And of course, not all books published since the mid-90s can be found in Google Book Search. But it's a start.

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