Explore Books and Magazines Using Google Search Options
Good news to all books and magazines enthusiasts, Google has finally included “books” and “magazines” tab under its Search Options panel. To search the web to find a particular content related to books and magazines, you’ll just have to click “Show options… located under search box and then select Books.
This new development from Google lets you search content or books that Google scans. Then it converts to text by using an optical character recognition which is then stored in its database. Many internet users will find this latest feature very helpful for your search for any content or several reading materials in the internet is made easier for you by Google.
Google is also collaborating with a lot of Media publications and several publishers in their plan to digitized magazines and articles such as Ebony, New York Magazine, and Popular Mechanics. You will surely enjoy reading the pages of your desired books or magazines in full color and in context with the issues in which they come into view.
Since this is a new feature, most of the magazines are on a Limited Preview only. But rest assured that in the near future, you can access Full View of all magazines and books as Google is trying very hard to expand and develop this facet of their search options. Also, as Google secure permission from magazine publishers, more and more magazines and articles will appear in Google Book Search results for all internet enthusiasts to enjoy. An arrangement of combining magazine results into the main google.com search results is also under way, so you have to watch out for this plan to materialize.
Just a note before I forget. For now, discovering books and magazines using Google search options is only available in the United States. For those outside of US, you’ll just have to wait for this innovation to become available in your country to begin your search.
How to Add Books in Google Book Search’s My Library
Most of the books I read before were just school textbooks, or self-help books. It was only when I decided to finish reading Edith Hamilton’s Mythology book, seven years ago, that I began to get interested on reading fiction books.
Today, I just finished reading Mitch Albom’s ‘For One More Day‘, and I added it to My Library at Google Book Search. My rate for the book would just be 3.5 stars, though it inspired me to become a great mother someday it was not as great as Tuesdays with Morrie. Maybe because I really haven’t lost a love one yet that I might not be able to relate to Charles Benetto’s feelings. However, through his story I learned to appreciate my mother’s love for me.
But anyways, the site really don’t allow a .5 rating so I would give the book 3 stars. 4 stars is too much. Here are some books I have added in my online library:
- Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden
- The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown
- The Last Juror By John Grisham
- Purpose Driven Life By Rick Warren
- The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco
- The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Success by Ann Longknife, K. D. Sullivan
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
“My Library” on Book Search was introduced on September 2007. Since then, users can create and manage a personalized library.
If you have an account and want to add books in your library, just type on the search box the title of the book you want to add. On the search results just choose a book to add, and click the link ‘Add to my library‘.
After adding, go to your library page then began labeling, reviewing, rating, and adding notes to each of your books. The link to ‘My Library’ is found on the upper right corner of the Book Search web page. Also search your customized selection of books whenever you need them. These collection of books can be shared to your friends by sending them a link to your library. So this is the link to my library, and this is the link to my RSS feed if you want to be alerted whenever I add a new book.
I really don’t have time reading all the books I bought, so I prefer to describe myself a bibliophile rather than a book reader. And I really just love the smell of new books. Probably, I would own a real library someday with two thirds of the books left unread.
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