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Printing Public Domain Books from the Internet Archive via Print on Demand Technology

Monday, November 19th, 2007

A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works: 1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive. 2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company. 3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2). The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...

Another Book Search Engine Experiment

Monday, July 30th, 2007

About two years ago I coded a small experimental search engine for books which used Ajax and Amazon web services. Recently, I went back to the same concept and put up a new experiment - a meta search engine for book information that aggregates book data from about 60 different ...

BookChaser: an Ajax Book Search Engine

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

A very long time ago (about five years) I had the bright idea of starting a new search engine like IMDB but for books. Eventually I purchased the BookChaser.com domain name and have held on to it ever since. At some point a bunch of people like me got together ...