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The Google headquarters?sign in Mountain View, California. Google在加州山景城的總部標誌。 (照片：美聯社) PHOTO: AP

Google plans to begin letting people download and print classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain free of charge.

Using Google's Book Search service, Web surfers hunting titles like Dante's Inferno and Aesop's Fables will be able to download PDF files of the books for later reading, to run keyword searches or to print the books out on paper. Up to now, the service only allowed people to read the out-of-copyright books online.

Google supports the service by showing its small, text ads on search-results pages.

The download program does not include any books under copyright. For these titles, Book Search only displays basic bibliographic information and, in many cases, small snippets of text surrounding a search phrase, unless it has permission from the publisher to show more. The company's display of snippets has riled some publishers, but Google has argued showing the small bites of text is fair.

Google's Book Search service is the product of its Books Library Project, which is making books from major libraries around the world searchable online. Its partners in the project include the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, the University of California and the New York Public Library. Google is also conducting a project with the Library of Congress.(AP)

Google計畫開始讓大眾免費下載列印經典著作，以及其他許多較鮮為人知，且不受著作保護的作品。

Google的「書籍搜尋」服務，讓尋找如但丁的「神曲煉獄篇」或「伊索寓言」等作品的網路一族，可下載PDF檔案供日後閱讀、進行關鍵字搜查，或列印成紙本。但目前為止，這項服務只提供大眾線上閱讀沒有版權的書籍。

Google在搜尋結果頁面顯示小型文字廣告支援這項服務。

下載計畫不包括任何受著作法保護的書籍，「書籍搜尋」只顯示這些書籍的基本書目資訊，除非出版者允許顯示更多內容，否則多半只會顯示搜尋字詞前後的小段文章。Google顯示小段文章的舉動激怒部分出版商，但是Google認為顯示少部分內容是合理使用。

Google的「書籍搜尋」服務是「圖書館藏計畫」計畫下的產物，這項計畫旨在能線上搜尋世界各大圖書館的書籍，計畫夥伴包括密西根大學、哈佛大學、史丹佛大學、牛津大學、加州大學和紐約公共圖書館。Google也正與美國國會圖書館進行一項計畫。

(美聯社/翻譯：鄭湘儀)

Today's Words 今天單字 1. obscure adj. 無名的 (wu2 ming2 de5) 例: Our professor loves to quote obscure writers to confuse us. (我們教授喜歡引用無名的作者來困惑我們。) 2. bibliographic adj. 書目的 (shu1 mu4 de5) 例: Make sure you list your bibliographic information clearly. (確定你將書目資訊條列清楚了。) 3. snippet n. 片斷的內容 (pian4 duan4 de5 nei4 rong2) 例: I only heard a snippet of their conversation, but I think Lisa and Tom were talking about going to Thailand. (我只聽到他們對話的片段，但我想麗莎和湯姆在談論去泰國的相關事宜。) 4. rile v.t. 使激動 (shi3 ji1 dong4) 例: The coach gave a passionate speech before the game to get his players riled up to play. (教練在賽前發表激昂的談話振奮球員士氣。)

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