More on E-books: Google Books

In light of my past discussion on e-books and print books, this news: Today Google announced that they will now offer users the opportunity to download PDF's for personal use and printing of public domain books on their Google Books website. This news has yet to make the wires on Biblical-related blogs that I read, but I'm not sure why. I think this will prove to be very helpful.

Part of the reason that no one has posted on this is perhaps that they have not yet realized what treasures may be available. After all, many public domain books sit lonely on library shelves, not well-advertised because they're not the latest thing. Yet they still contain great treasures. If anyone begins compiling a list of books available on Google Books, let me know I'd love to share the wealth of word-of-blog advertising.

Smyth's Greek Grammar anyone? Goodwin's grammar? (Check out pages 49 and 50 of Goodwin. As you can see Google's work is far from perfect) I know these books are available in other places as well, but that is just to give you a tip of the iceberg idea of what is out there. Of course the number of books available on Google Books is still very limited. Some subject areas are more plentiful than others. (There are many more books available on Classical Greek than for Biblical Greek for instance).

Good luck digging and let me know what turns up!

Update on pros and cons of Google's project.