What John Scalzi thinks about Google

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

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1. 28 Oct 2026, 00:56 UTC

   Our readingThe Googlebook is not entirely baked, and it shows.

   Their wordsThe Googlebook is a fine little machine, and I’m mostly happy to own it, but it is not entirely baked, and it shows.

   ↗Further Thoughts on the Googlebook, in Comparison to the MacBook Airwhatever.scalzi.com