[GRLUG] ebook identification

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:50:32AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> Not totally Linux related, but I thought one of you might know.  Is
> there a program for ebook identification?  I'm thinking along the
> lines of Musicbrainz PUID audio signature, but for books.  I would
> think it would be easier for ebooks than music since there is no
> compression and a word is a word, but I am coming up with nothing on
> Google. I keep coming up with e-books about fuzzy logic, isbns, tree
> identification, signature analysis, and fingerprinting.

Wait.  ebooks aren't compressed?  Isn't plain text about the most
compressible thing around, and lossless at that?  This surprises me.
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