Anyone use Google Books before?

[Slew Foot]

Wow, kinda neat. You can search the insides of many textbooks. Helps a lot in doing research.

http://books.google.com

 

[Xyo II]

Yup, I used it a lot in highschool to do book reports on books I've never read before.

 

[BrownTown]

When i search for stuff it only gives you a few pages of each book. And when i use the full book feature I start getting stuff that isnt the book I want. I tried some textbooks and also some famous works and coudl find niether in full length.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
When i search for stuff it only gives you a few pages of each book. And when i use the full book feature I start getting stuff that isnt the book I want. I tried some textbooks and also some famous works and coudl find niether in full length.

Google has to do that to avoid copywright lawsuits. They can only show part of the literature, except of books that have allowed google full use of their works.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Einstein Element

Originally posted by: BrownTown
When i search for stuff it only gives you a few pages of each book. And when i use the full book feature I start getting stuff that isnt the book I want. I tried some textbooks and also some famous works and coudl find niether in full length.

Google has to do that to avoid copywright lawsuits. They can only show part of the literature, except of books that have allowed google full use of their works.

or the books those are out of copyright, which is about 80 years. iirc.

for those that are interested in the copyright issue, I've got a good article on it. link