Google Browse

Google Book Search makes use of a new e-book reader that the engineer who designed it talks about on Google’s blog. My initial reaction to it was ho-hum. We’ve all been used to Adobe’s Reader for years now, so being able to alter magnification and flip pages is nothing new. And although it’s something of a feat to have duplicated these abilities using DHTML and JavaScript, the fact remains that for the end user the impact is less than astonishing. On the upside, the Google “browser” loads in no time at all and is likely available wherever there’s an internet connection. Take a look and see what you think. A search for “legal research” in the ‘Full view books’ category turns up some interesting hits.