Google Book is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google has scanned and stored in its digital database. It allows users to search for books by title, author, or keywords and view snippets of text or sample pages. For books in the public domain, users can view full books online. Users can also purchase books online or find their availability at local libraries. The tool provides various features for viewing books like cover views, list views, embedded previews, contents menus, and page turn animations. It also offers improved search capabilities within books and book overview pages with additional metadata.

1. Google Books

2. What is Google Book? Google Book is one of the tools from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database.

4. it offers some sample pages

5. "Full Book View" is available if the book is out of copyright

6. you can buy the book straight to an online bookstore

7. if the book was scanned from a library, you can click this to find a local library that has the book in its stock

9. at the “more” drop-down link choose books

10. OR

11. GO DIRECTLY TO: books.google.com

15. Fiction

16. Non – fiction

17. Random subjects

18. Highly cited

19. Magazines

20. Interesting

21. type the title or author of the book in the search engine

23. List View

24. Cover View

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30. Better search within each book Searchers can also sort their search results by relevance in addition to page order in the book or magazine.

31. Better search within each book In the search results bar, you'll find 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons that allow you to browse through search hits quickly and easily.