{"id":846,"date":"2006-11-28T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2006-11-28T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T06:32:22","slug":"google_makes_slight_improvemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/google_makes_slight_improvemen\/","title":{"rendered":"google makes slight improvements to book search interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/new-way-to-browse-books.html\">a few interface niceties<\/a> to its Book Search book viewer. It now loads multiple pages at a time, giving readers the option of either scrolling down or paging through left to right. There&#8217;s also a full screen reading mode and a &#8220;more about this book&#8221; link taking you to a profile page with links to related titles plus references and citations from other books or from articles in Google Scholar. Also on the profile page is a searchable keyword cluster of high-incidence names or terms from the text.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?vid=ISBN0451526872&#038;id=U5GO75hLo3cC&#038;pg=PP1&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;dq=herman+melville&#038;sig=Xi7tXi_1F7GIPwA1pm4KIzHmg6E#PPA107,M1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bartlebygoogle2.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/bartlebygoogle2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAbove is the in-copyright Signet Classic edition of <em>Billy Budd and Other Tales<\/em> by Melville, which contains only a limited preview of the text. You can also view the entire original 1856 edition of <em>Piazza Tales<\/em> as scanned from the Stanford Library. Public domain editions like this one can now be viewed with facing pages.<br \/>\nStill a conspicuous lack of any annotation or social reading tools.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?vid=OCLC05322752&#038;id=4KYOAAAAIAAJ&#038;pg=PA1&#038;lpg=PA1&#038;dq=herman+melville&#038;as_brr=1#PPP6,M1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bartlebygoogle.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/bartlebygoogle.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added a few interface niceties to its Book Search book viewer. It now loads multiple pages at a time, giving readers the option of either scrolling down or paging through left to right. There&#8217;s also a full screen reading mode and a &#8220;more about this book&#8221; link taking you to a profile page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,498,549,755,759,891,1059,1062,1171,1541,1576],"tags":[2485],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-digitization","category-ebooks","category-google","category-google_book_search","category-interface","category-libraries","category-library","category-melville","category-publicdomain","category-reading","tag-google-google_book_search-digitization-library-libraries-melville-interface-reading-ebooks-copyright-publicdomain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}