Google Book Search Offers Free Books

Books are good. They educate, stimulate and, depending on what you’re reading, can make even the most hardcore of Ponies and Kittens players cry. Now, books can make you cry in front of your computer screen, and you don’t even have to wipe against C’thun to do it.

Google plans to bring us all closer in the joy of reading about the steamy love scenes of Shakespeare’s many plays and the hellish grand journey of Dante’s Inferno for no cost at all. The super search engine company has set up Google Book Search in such a way as to let you download out-of-copyright books completely free, except for the price of your net connection and whatever it would cost you if you still wanted to print the whole thing out.

Once you download the PDF file of your choice, you can take it anywhere with you… whether it be on your PDA, or your laptop, or you could stash it in your own flash disk. Very useful, and no paper needed!

Still, with the number of dead authors without relatives these days, coupled with any sort of rare tomes that have been uncovered by people, that’s definitely going to be a lot of books. Heck, you can even find some of those stories you read when you were a kid, if you’re good at hunting down book titles, or maybe one of those old-fashioned 9-planet science books.

The only thing that would be missing from this collection would be the canonical apocrypha: those books that are supposed to be part of the bible, but aren’t because their authenticity isn’t verified or goes against Catholic teachings. Maybe they’d be a good read, but only if someone could translate them into English, I suppose.

Books are good. They educate, stimulate and, depending on what you’re reading, can make even the most hardcore of Ponies and Kittens players cry. Now, books can make you cry in front of your computer screen, and you don’t even have to wipe against C’thun to do it.

Google plans to bring us all closer in the joy of reading about the steamy love scenes of Shakespeare’s many plays and the hellish grand journey of Dante’s Inferno for no cost at all. The super search engine company has set up Google Book Search in such a way as to let you download out-of-copyright books completely free, except for the price of your net connection and whatever it would cost you if you still wanted to print the whole thing out.

Once you download the PDF file of your choice, you can take it anywhere with you… whether it be on your PDA, or your laptop, or you could stash it in your own flash disk. Very useful, and no paper needed!

Still, with the number of dead authors without relatives these days, coupled with any sort of rare tomes that have been uncovered by people, that’s definitely going to be a lot of books. Heck, you can even find some of those stories you read when you were a kid, if you’re good at hunting down book titles, or maybe one of those old-fashioned 9-planet science books.

The only thing that would be missing from this collection would be the canonical apocrypha: those books that are supposed to be part of the bible, but aren’t because their authenticity isn’t verified or goes against Catholic teachings. Maybe they’d be a good read, but only if someone could translate them into English, I suppose.