This is a cool tool. Though this tool reminds me of a dilemma I have with Google: what do you think about the fact that Google has effectively extracted value from the authors of these books without paying them, yet Google itself does not allow you to scrape them AFAIK (If I'm wrong I'd be curious to see where in their ToS they allow this)?
Though Google doesn't seem to be monetizing this directly, the fact that they're training their models on this data does likely have some nebulous value. Given that most books are for sale, surely there's a good way to reconcile the fact that the authors would like payment and organizations like Google would like to scrape their text.
Though Google doesn't seem to be monetizing this directly, the fact that they're training their models on this data does likely have some nebulous value. Given that most books are for sale, surely there's a good way to reconcile the fact that the authors would like payment and organizations like Google would like to scrape their text.