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## why
Online book websites are designed not around reading, but around
surveillance. It is not merely the selection of book that is
recorded, but exactly what is read, when, and for how long.
Forever. And this is linked to all other information the website
holds about you (which in the case of Google and Amazon is likely
to be a great deal).
Being free to do what you like with a book, you can also load it
onto any device you have access to, share it, study it, read it
offline, and do anything else you can do with normal computer files.
You can easily use OCR software to get text versions of downloaded
books, making them accessible to people who can't easily read from
the page scans.
## technical
## further reading
* [The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to
Online Reading](http://hlpronline.com/2010/05/the-case-for-book-privacy-parity-
google-books-and-the-shift-from-offline-to-online-reading/) by Cindy Cohn & Kathryn
Hashimoto
* [The Perils of Social Reading](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?
abstract_id=2031307) by Neil M. Richards
* [A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Google]
(http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_1/fuchs8_1.html) by Christian Fuchs
* [Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge]
(http://yanko.lib.ru/books/internet/google_and_the_myth_of_universal_knowledge-en-
l.pdf) by Jean-Noël Jeanneney
* [The Eternal Value of Privacy](http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html) by Bruce
Schneier