A while ago I started looking at Google Books. I’ve been reading sporadically about Google’s book effort for a few years, but I’ve never really dug into it. After making a few book searches, I can tell that it’s an awesome product!
The search results have really met my demands so far, and much of the contents of the books are available to read on-line. As many of the books are protected by copyright, the publishers (from what I’ve understood, anyway) decide which pages to publish on-line. From what I’ve seen so far, they’ve more or less randomly removed a few pages here and there, to encourage the reader to buy the book to get the full contents. And that’s fine by me!
I think it’s a great tool to use when searching for development material (“I know I read it in this and that book, but I don’t have the book now…”) and when you want to get a good preview of a book before going all-in on Amazon.
Try it out yourself!
(Every time Google does something like this, I get more and more scared they’ll begin charging us big-time soon… 
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