Michael J Leclerc did a post on Mocavo
with the above title. I suggest you give
it a read to get a snapshot of what has
been going on with regards to digitizing books and the involvement of Google.
This is very important to us as genealogists and family
historians! I am frequently looking to
see if Google
Books
either has a full version of an out-of-copyright book available or snippets
from possibly relevant and more modern books.
Even if I can find that a book with a certain title exists
through Worldcat,
through Google Books and a partial or snippet view, I can get a better sense of
whether the content of the book found might have relevance to my needs. This helps me then decide whether I can
access it locally, can borrow it through ILL
There are so many gems hidden in books! I’ve learned so many great things from book
snippets and they have often left me “wanting more!”
I do hope that we will continue to see more and more “snippets”
of information from published books to remind us of their great content and
their hopeful availability through a library or maybe as an on demand
publication.
What do you think?
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