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Old 09-01-2013, 01:46 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by MelBr View Post
...but if they're non-fiction, then having a lot of books can be extremely useful when you're synthesizing information and need to reference, cross-check and verify facts etc.

I do full-text search all the time on my library and it's proven extremely useful to me. You never know what you're gonna find when you do that.
ok but
1. isn't that what google is for ?
2.when & if 200,000 books can be fully indexed, the metadata becomes pretty redundant, for research purposes?

We are talking upwards of 200Gb of compressed text here, so indexing that lot is not trivial. I don't think windows 7 is able to find occurences of a word or phrase within books that are in my much more modest calibre library - certainly not on default indexing settings

still curious as to how 200,000 fiction or non-fiction texts ( published ones with ISBNs) could be legally accumulated- by some one who is only just starting grad school

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