Read ANY Book Online Free

WOW:EDIT: Looks like they have pulled it from the web--giving only server errors as of 7:50 p.m. CDT 8/12/05--see edit note below. 8/13/05 a.m. --Google server error fixed

New, in Beta: Google Print
go to http://print.google.com
and enter any book you want to read. You might need to log-in, use your Gmail info. Don't have a Google log-in, then get one so you can access Usenet from anywhere and do research, but I digress.

I tried The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

they seemed to have this book but not the newer one by Gladwell, "Blink" (both great books, IMHO),

anyway--put 'introduction' or 'table of contents' into the 'search within the book' search box on left.
Most books are going to say that you can read certain pages but no where near all of them...if you search for say, "Page 12"..it might say "this page is restricted"....BUT

The trick to getting to read every page is to use the search box to find the page with a certain phrase that appears on the last page you read, then you can read for 3 pages past that. You just have to keep asking it to give you search results for word phrases that you know are on the pages that you want to see. Seems to work for now, but I heard there were some lawyer types upset as if this 'work-around' or 'mini-hack' gets to be used too often, some might consider that this online text 'fair use' is overstepping things up at the Googleplex.

EDIT-8/12/05: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/08/12/financial/f095817D41.DTL
Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books

(08-12) 09:58 PDT SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) --

Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine.

The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its Web site just before midnight Thursday by Adam Smith, the manager of its ambitious program to convert millions of books into a digital format.

"We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order (to) introduce their work to countless readers around the world," Smith wrote. "But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too."

Google wants publishers to notify the company which copyrighted books they don't want scanned, effectively requiring the industry to opt out of the program instead of opting in.

That approach rankled the Association of American Publishers.......


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