December 1st, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Support TeamThe art of making jewelry is one of those popular hobbies that have truly withstood the test of time. Since adornments have customarily accentuated haute couture, the craft has long been an attractive r…
November 13th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Support Team”The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”— Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson (source: LI…
October 28th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Books Online TeamI live in Dublin Do you see the same city I see? -James Joyce[Please note, some books linked from this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]Recently, I moved from San F…
October 18th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Daniel Hirsch, Google Books Online TeamWhen we’re not out scanning and subsequently trying to read all the world’s books, some of us on the Google Books team actually like to watch television. So it is with some remorse that we watched Sunday…
October 15th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Abe Murray, product manager, Google Books Tomorrow, Sat. 10/16, the second annual Boston Book Festival is expected to attract more than 25,000 attendees to celebrate, discover and learn about books. We’ll be there to celebrate with them bec…
October 14th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by James Crawford, engineering director, Google BooksThis morning I’ll be speaking on the topic of the present and future of Google Books at the Europeana Open Culture conference at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Now as much as ever, our share…
September 22nd, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Books Online Team[Please note, some images in this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]As video games become ever more popular, I’ve begun to wonder how pre-video game generations kept the…
September 9th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Google Books Online TeamAnyone who has read Leo Tolstoy knows that curling up with War and Peace or Anna Karenina is no easy feat. At nearly 700 pages apiece, each novel offers adventure, history, views on social reform, morality,…
September 1st, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Google Books Online Team[Please note, some images in this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]Now that it’s early September and we’re officially in the dog days of summer, what better …
August 17th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Online TeamIf you thought you knew everything there is to know about chocolate, think again! This world famous decadent dessert certainly has some dark secrets of its own – a treasure that has been enriched over the…
August 5th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Leonid Taycher, software engineerWhen you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?”Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean …
July 30th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Online TeamPortrait of Emily Jane Brontë (Source: LIFE Magazine)No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:I see Heaven’s glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.– Em…
June 29th, 2010 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Books
Posted by Diego Puppin, Engineer, and Brandon Badger, Product ManagerOn April 1st we launched a 3D viewing mode on Google Books. We took the feature down on April 2nd in order to focus our efforts on a 4D version. That effort failed miserably, but I
June 25th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Will Brockman, Software EngineerAs an undergraduate I dabbled in Classics, and I remember being surprised by the term hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον). That’s “written once” — a word that occurs in only one place in the written…
June 16th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Annabella Weisl, Strategic Partner Manager, Google BooksGregor Mendel, the nineteenth century Austro-Hungarian scientist, is an ancestor of modern genetic studies. His paper, Experiments on Plant Hybrids, helped early twentieth century scie…