Karthik Chronicles

    I have been in college for more than 4 months now and like many other college going students in India have been instructed not to carry a mobile phone with a camera into the college by our college authorities. I am one of those people who don’t care if we have a camera in our mobile but do need a good enough GPRS facility, nice resolution, JPG image support, mp3 ringtones and Java facility.  So if you want all this you just can’t take a mobile to college because any mobile with these facility ends up having a camera, at the least a VGA camera. Since I am a internet freak I had one of these kinds of phones and I ended up loosing it to the college authorities(even though we are allowed to bring cameras into college). I really have no problem with that fact that they took my mobile phone and neither do I want to write blaming them because that will be too stupid. But I wanted to point out some details for people who might find this interesting.

Nowadays mobile phones as cheap as of Rs. 2500 and above have camera. But many high end mobiles don’t have them(not that we can buy them). Camera with a mobile phone is not a luxury now but actually a necessity according to many people. People demand it since many people use mobile phones as their primary camera. The way mobile has been developing I am sure the day is not far when mobiles phone will not be made without camera. All mobiles will have camera. I guess this would happen in nearly 5-7 years in India. I guess at that time they will just simply ban mobile phones in colleges.

          Had been reading Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows for sometime now but still haven’t been able to finish it got only two or three days after it came actually. I should have finished it on the day I got it but unfortunately I have been sick for the whole week and haven’t even gone to college now since I am not well. I don’t have any idea why I have written this post seems like an overkill to me though. Yeah, I saw the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix on Sunday but since I was not well, I couldn’t write about it which I will do after this. There are lots of random ideas in my mind at this moment which I suppose I will be putting up in form of posts.

Now this is something everyone studying college should have in their browser’s bookmark folders. I never actually thought that doing assignments in colleges would be so difficult. I didn’t actually think I would start getting assignments within two week of joining college but still. The professor who gives me assignment insists that we read some book and do it rather than getting stuff of net. The worst part is that I rarely find anything related to my topic on net which becomes quite tough then and as I have late college its quite tough to go to library and search for a relevant book as it might take hours to find something relevant. I always thought if we could google for books and find the specific page which we needed to look and I guess google had answered this sometime back.

One of my non-geeky friends was trying to help with my assignment and ended up giving me a link to this. I couldn’t believe that something like that existed. It was more of a dream come true. All I needed was the right keywords and it was done. I really sound like those cheap ass advertising comments that I get on my blog but really it was very helpful. It gives preview of books which one can then read from the browser itself. Some books have full book preview and some of them have just some pages for preview and one can actually select that which type of books we want to see which is also a good feature.

I was not mood in writing review of something old but still I thought it was something good and useful to guys like me who have Professors sitting on their head wanting them to go through a ton lots of books just to get two page of information, though its not bad its hectic and tiresome. I guess google gods always have answers for everything.

Oh yeah forgot that some guys in schools have these kinds of teachers too so its good for them too, didnt want to make it seem that college is tougher than school.

Link: http://www.books.google.com/

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