I am a voracious reader and I often find it hard to figure out a text extract which I read in some books which I no longer remember. I always wished to have a search facility like Google to scan all my books and find the book where I read the particular info. Now this my “beyond tomorrow’s” wish seems to have been fulfilled.
A Google software engineer Matt Cutts posted a video on YouTube showing how you can easily add your books from off your bookshelf at home to the My Library feature in Google Book using a simple USB powered Barcode scanner.
For the start, just click on the ‘My Library’ link when browsing Google Book followed by ‘Import Book’ links. Now just use a barcode scanner to import the ISBN from the barcode on the back of each hard copy book in your collection.
Once done, you can see your collection in the Google My Library and can scan your books for a keyword or a search term.
Check out the details on this topic in this video posted by Matt Cutts:
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Add your books from off your bookshelf at home to Google Library for performing searches – http://tinyurl.com/l654rt | Pls. Rt
RT @anddjournal: Add your books from off your bookshelf at home to Google Library for performing searches – http://tinyurl.com/l654rt
RT @anddjournal: Add your books from off your bookshelf at home to Google Library for performing searches – http://tinyurl.com/l654rt
This is actually kind of neat. It’s just so amazing at what computers can do nowadays… and to be able to put a book into a computer by a bar scanner, that’s just so cool
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