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Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. You can also use the Google search engine to look for books,
and actually read text of different books that are listed that are indexed through Google.
The easiest way to do that is to go to the book search page within Google, and if you
don't remember the address, I'll it's much easier if you just type in on the search bar
Google books, and you'll come to the actual list of web sites, but the first one will
be the Google book search. When you click on that, you see that the Google now is only
looking at the index of books that it has that you can search through, and you see that
there's many on the left hand side, there's many different categories of books that you
can look through, that you can do your search. Let's go to literature, and we'll do a search
for the classic book The Scarlet Letter. So we see that in the subject literature, it
gives us some examples of all books that are there. We see some classics, Tom Sawyer, Call
of the Wild. Let's do a search for The Scarlet letter. The first thing I'm going to want
to do is I want to change my view. Instead of looking at the cover of each book, I'm
going to change my view to the list view over here on the right, and now I can search more
specifically. I can see more details about each of the results. I'm going to click on
this book, The Scarlet Letter, the second one listed, and we see that we actually get
the book. The full text of the book that we can scroll through and read the text. Here
we see the first thing that comes up is the cover, and if we scroll down, we see that
we're actually looking at the text of the book as it appears in the original book. Here's
our table of contents, and if we continue to scroll down we see that we have the actual
text of the book. Keep in mind that each entry is different. We see that this particular
result has written in it some pages are omitted from this book preview meaning obviously everything
is copyrighted. But there are other options that you can look at when you're going through
the search results that have listed next to them full preview. So those books will give
you a full preview of the text, and it's a very convenient way if you don't have the
book obviously and you need to reference something, then you can just go and do a search and you
can actually get the text. You see here that the one that I clicked on was a limited preview,
but you see here there's a full view. Here's another limited preview. Most of them are
limited preview, but we did find one with a full view. So this one would give you the
actual full text of the book.