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"Google Books was 90% there, I wish it had been allowed to succeed."

Yes, it would be so much better if an opaque "tech" company was collecting data on every "patron" to inform its online advertising services business and other commercial projects.

While Google might have access to some of the same material, not to mention an endless stream of garbage one would never find in a library, as an organization, it does not share the same principles.

https://cdn.ifla.org/files/assets/faife/codesofethics/united...



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