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Steven Chabot

I just wanted to thank quickly Jennifer Macaulay at Life as I Know It and Vonjobi at Filipino Librarian for their Blog Day links to my site. I would love to play as well, but I am really busy today. Maybe I can take a rain-cheque for the holiday and suggest some great reading at another time.

And for all of you new people visiting [and don't think I can't see you ;) ], I start school again in less than a week; if my posts seem spaced out and devoid of content, read some of my older posts and then hang on until the day after Labour Day when I can post all my great class and research thoughts in this space and hopefully attempt to keep you entertained. Counting the days until I can stop working 5 days a week.

Bye for now,

Steven

§60 · August 31, 2006 · Personal · 2 comments ·

¶ Quick Note about Google Book Search

To Peter Suber, because there are no comments on his blog, for what I can tell. From this post:

Nor does the barrier-free access seem to have begun yet. Here’s a public-domain 1897 edition of MacBeth scanned from Harvard’s library. I can print it one page at a time, but I can’t find a way to print or download the full text.

Maybe things have changed since his post, but I found this copy of Macbeth with a full PDF download on the right side. Not only that, but more interesting are the various commentaries on the play, histories of Scotland and the Anglo-Saxons and other works from the 18th and 19th century. Nothing from the 20th, even outside copyright (isn’t it pre-1923?). Here is a search for “Macbeth” only in those books with full text available.

As I future librarian I hold reservations about giving one company so much power, but just the possibility of reading some textual commentary from the 19th Century raises more than a few good avenues for research off the top of my head and gives me academic goosebumps.