[GRLUG] ebook identification

[Benjamin Flanders]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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.

I guess I should have not used the word "compressed".  I was going for
the term lossless and had a brain bump.  Sorry.

Anyway, I would have thought the application would have been out there
already .



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