Book Clip Mashup #001
Published September 10th, 2007, 3:00am in Curiosities, Ideas.Who needs a cut-up machine when you can embed and combine public-domain book-page slices via Google Books?
UPDATE: “Ironics Light and Dark” above had to replaced with “ROBUST RED-BLOODED REALISM” because the 1901 poetry journal I had originally clipped from disappeared from Google’s index. One of the downsides of embeddable book clips. One of the positive sides is the chance discovery of the public-domain version of lit-blogs (the ‘Chronicle and Comment’ section of 1912 back issues of The Bookman) and the fascinating advertisements of The Reader illustrated monthly circa 1907—defending automobiles, selling talking machines, marketing faux hipster beer as baby medicine and making Grape-Nuts manly. Amazing that “predigested” seems to have been one of the most effective adjectives in the copywriter’s arsenal.
UPDATE II: It’s hard to stay excited about embeddable book clips when Google keeps making adjustments to their index that throw your clippings off and render them incoherent. Screenshots are starting to look good again.
UPDATE III: Eight of the books clipped disappeared from Google’s index 1/24/2008, so this mashup is now a giant screenshot that doesn’t link to anything. Thanks Google!
6 Responses to “Book Clip Mashup #001”
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Ahhh, I love it!
But I think you should the borders off these images. It looks better in bloglines sans border.
Good point. Done.
Uh-uh, them borders are still showing.
Your problem is that the border=”0″ attribute won’t override the border that’s coming in from your stylesheet (HTML 4.0 vs. CSS). Try style=”border:0px;” instead.
I was only trying to appease you and other bloglines die-hards with the first fix, but that second one worked nicely. Thanks style queen.