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Google Book Search Adds New Features

Inside Google Books Search blog: “…we’ve just launched a bunch of new features and a whole new interface to make your online book experience better. First, we made it easier to find books you may be interested in by improving the “About this book” page. If you’re a bookworm looking for your next book to devour, you can easily find new books via the related books feature….If you’re trying to beef up your research by uncovering relevant work, then you may want to check the references from books and scholarly works….Once you find a book you might be interested in, you can now see its chapter titles, key terms, and selected pages all on the same page, helping you get a feel for it. Next, we designed a new browsing interface. You can simply scroll through the pages, or, for full view books, view them in two-page mode and flip through just like a book. You can zoom in, switch to full screen, and jump directly to the chapters that interest you. If the book is part of the public domain, you can comfortably read it on screen or download it if you prefer. For an in-copyright book, just follow the links to buy it or to find it in a library.”

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