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Google search now gives users the option to search for book titles and download PDF files files of books out of copyright for free. However, the choice of downloads is still very limited.
The new Google Books search feature allows users to search on all books
or full view books. If they choose the full view option, they can type
in titles of books that are out of copyright and read them online. On
some of the titles, there is a download button which allows readers to
download the entire scanned book.
Thinking about titles that are out of copyright are enough to stretch
the imagination - even with very old books. We tried to source a copy
of Herodotus' The Histories for download and could only get an online
version to read. However, we could download a published commentary on
the book.
We were more successful in finding some copies for download of
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, including a scanned version from the
Harvard College Library (which is cooperating in the project) that is
obviously hundreds of years old because the English is barely
recognizable.
What seems to be missing is a link to some sort of index listing all the books available for download.
It seems that in order to stay out of hot water with publishers who
have reprinted versions of very old books, Google may have to tread
very carefully.
Fortunately for Google and the rest of us in the English speaking
world, prestigious libraries in the US and UK are squarely behind the
project. However, since those libraries carry mainly copyrighted works,
which is what most people want to read, the questions remain as to how
Google is going to be able to make them available online without
incurring the wrath of publishers and authors.
David Bass
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