This is a very ambitious program from Google and I'm not sure how I feel about it. For the obvious reason of copyright, there is very little that is available full text. Most of the current books had either No preview available or Snippet view (which gave a bit of a summary and maybe table of contents). I did find some books that had Limited preview, which consisted of scanned pages of the book, with certain pages not included. The only book I could think of to find that had Full view was Hamlet, by Shakespeare.
I don't think that I would choose Google Book Search as the first port of call when looking for a book - I would use Libraries Australia or Library of Congress or the British Library.
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