Re: [IRCA] [Tvfmdx] Google Books

[Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using Google books for a huge research project I am working on,
and it is a GODSEND!  There are an incredible number of books available.
Many can be downloaded, usually to PDF format, though some can be downloaded
as eBooks.  The ones that cannot be downloaded either have limited preview,
snippets, or no preview available at all.  No preview seems useless to me.
Snippets can be handy, but the snippets may not target the information
you're looking for on the page.  Limited preview means that you can look at
many pages of the book but it will decide when you've seen enough...clear
your cookies and you can look at more of it.  To put it in simple terms, its
awesome!!!

Mike Hawkins


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM, HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS <
DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Have you heard much about "Google Books?"  I vaguely heard about the new
> Google app but Bob Rankin wrote an article on them at:
> http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_google_books.html
>
> While I'm not sure how to download books from Google books, let alone
> read them (yet), I did s search on the generic term radio and got over
> 200,000 hits!  That is a lot of books and magazine articles.  I saw some
> QST's from the 1940's and a White's Radio Log from 1939.  Hopefully
> someone can figure out how to read them.  This may be a valuable tool
> (even beyond DX!).
>
> 73,
> Dave Hascall
> Indianapolis, IN
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