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Posted by Ellen Cano Smith, Book Search Support TeamHaving spent a year in the city, I can tell you that Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, is the place to be right now.For 60 years, Edinburgh has held the world’s largest and most diverse arts festival d…

Posted by Sarah Payne, Book Search Support TeamMy obsession of the moment is all things astrological. Case in point: I have both the Tarot.com gadget and the virtual fortune cookie gadget on my iGoogle homepage. It runs in the family: my mother, a teac…

Posted by Elisabetta Di Reda, Book Search Support TeamAs Google Book Search has expanded to include more books in more languages, I’ve been excited to discover many masterpieces in my native Italian. If you’re interested in Italian literature, here are…

Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing ManagerMy apartment is kind of cluttered, and my book collection is no exception. Which means I sometimes have a hard time finding the book I’m looking for. Take last weekend, for example, when I found myself …

Posted by Bill Schilit & Okan Kolak, Research ScientistsWe’ve been working on ways to help you dive in and explore interesting ideas and connections in books. Today we’re pleased to announce Popular Passages, a way to follow the literary memes* tha…

Posted by Manas Tungare, Intern”Share and Enjoy”: It’s not just the slogan of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation in my favorite 5-book trilogy by Douglas Adams; it’s also a good way to describe a new feature in Google Book Search.When Google began scan…

Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support TeamI’ve heard many people describe reading as an experience that “transports” them to “another place.” This strikes me as true. When I’m lost in a book (so to speak), it’s easy to forget what’s going on around m…

Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing ManagerFrom time to time, we stumble across great stories about the unique and interesting ways you’re using Book Search. Recently, we invited Jo Guldi, the “roads scholar” we told you about last spring, and E…

Posted by Laura Harold, Book Search Support TeamInventory Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never att…

Posted by Jennie Johnson, Corporate CommunicationsHere on the Book Search team, we’re always looking for new ways to help you explore the world of books. That’s why we’re excited to partner with Google Earth to launch a Google Book Search layer. You ma…

Posted by William Rucklidge, Software EngineerI would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study. –Ezra Cornell, 1865As a graduate student at Cornell University, I spent many hours in the library stacks. Cornell’s collecti…

Posted by Josh Veltman, Specialist, Book Search Support TeamThis past weekend, when it was too hot to even think about abandoning my air conditioner, I was left with one question: “What can you do for nine straight hours from the confines of your apart…

Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support TeamI dreamed a fellow asked me if I wanted a dog, and I said yeah, I’d like to have a dog, and he went off and came back with a little black dog with stiff black, gold-tipped hair and sad eyes that looked someth…

Posted by Greg Yano, Book Search Support TeamFilmmaker Stanley Kubrick was known to be a perfectionist, sometimes demanding up to 100 takes from his actors. But one of the lesser known facts about the eccentric director is that he was also a voracious …

Posted by Roland Lange, Strategic Partner Development ManagerWe at the Google Book Search blog would be remiss if we did not address the most significant event in book publishing in the last 50 years: the release of the final book in J.K. Rowling’s exc…