Omnivore Wars - The First Salvo

The Booksellers Association looks like offering a good guide through the thickets of digitization on their new blog Booksellers Association: Omnivore Wars %u2013 The First Salvo ... I'm intrigued to see how having the 'search inside' facility for the entire stock of the British Library will work as a research tool - it should radically change the process. The possibilities are exciting, a challenge to creativity: research is democratized, you don't need to be especially able or near a library to achieve good results. Then, with so much information, how do you marshal it to achieve a great story? So many biographies are worthy but tired ... perhaps attention will begin to switch from the depth of research and the arrangement of information to the quality of the writing in bringing a subject to life.