Scanning the books is fair use. Hooray! Information wants to be free, and Google just helped it get more free. Google Gets Total Victory Over Authors Guild: Book Scanning Is Fair Use
Coding and Techy Stuff
This "Coding and Techy Stuff" category is here because peripatetically I make a living as a software engineer. This is where I put anything related to coding and technology, and sometimes just unrelated information such as you might find posted on ycombinator's always-intellectually-curious Hacker News.