Google Betas Google Print

Chronic Infection writes "Google is beta testing a book search service called Google Print. Here is a list of books included to date." Quick spot checking turned up excerpts like this one for The DaVinci Code, a great book if you haven't read it.

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...a great book if you haven't read it.

[mschaffer]

"...a great book if you haven't read it."

I cant resist asking:

So how great is it if you did read it?

Amazing

[bwdunn]

This is simply amazing. First it's amazing that publishers are allowing such a thing. It's also amazing to imagine what we only be in the immediate future for all of us. Knowledge at our fingertips, from web sites, and now from online books whose publishers realize that many, many people will read parts online but will want to purchase a dead tree to read the whole book.

I know Amazon did this first, but I love to see Google taking up the idea. Google is simply my favorite company in the world. They don't take crap from (mostly) anyone, and they run Linux across the board. They are an undeniable force.

It may be risky, but I for one will be investing in Google the moment they release their stock. This is a terrific company and the people that are running it are terrifically smart!

Excerpt?

[gassendi]

Most of the alleged "excerpts" are nothing of the sort. They're just bibliographic entries.

This would be a really useful service if they could distinguish between the books that have *actual* excerpts and those which just had descriptions, TOCs, etc.

Here's how to print Amazon's book search

[Anonymous Coward]

Not really related to Google directly, but still useful. In a user .css file (you can specify it in IE's accessibility options or Opera, or use userContent.css in your Mozilla/Firebird profile chrome directory): .readerImage {
display: inline !important;
}

That's it. Really simple.

Re:Page rank in books?

[FartingTowels]

There are hyperlinks in books and are called references. Also, in most cases, information in books is not designed to skew potential search logic, so search can be performed at face value - by keywords (like in old good search engines).

BTW, I wonder when will the first "sex sex sex porn porn porn hot hot hot big big big" book show up?

Defective Large Print Edition

[linuxwrangler]

I just looked at the excerpt of "The Partner, Large Print Edition" but unfortunately the font was the same as for all the other books.