[GRLUG] ebook identification

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:33:09AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> 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.

Whew.  I thought the world had gone mad.

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

Do ebooks have internal flags like .ogg & .mp3?
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