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For each work, Google Books automatically generates an overview page. This page displays information extracted from the book—its publishing details, a high frequency word map, the table of contents—as well as secondary material, such as summaries, reader reviews (not readable in the mobile version of the website), and links to other relevant texts.
The Google Books Ngram Viewer was developed in the hope of opening a new window to quantitative research in the humanities field, and the database contained 500 billion words from 5.2 million books publicly available from the very beginning. [2] [3] [9]
Below the Preview tier is Snippet View, where Google does not have rights to display the work. Snippet View relies on the concept of fair use for educational purposes, to make small fragments of a page visible in response to searches. There are substantial restrictions as to what can be seen via Snippet View.
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play , which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
For free user, Google was able to show up to 20% of a copyrighted book via the snippet mode. Google could show ads on these pages and split the ad revenue with authors and publishers. A user could purchase access to a book, treated as an eBook, for a one-time cost. Institutions could acquire full access to all books for a subscription-based fee.
Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer. GSview: Open source software and Ghostscript's viewer for Windows. Microsoft Edge: Includes a PDF viewer. Microsoft Reader: A discontinued PDF viewer in Windows 8.1. Mozilla Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer. MuPDF: Free lightweight document viewer. Nitro PDF Reader: Freeware (though proprietary) PDF reader ...
Sumatra PDF is a free and open-source document viewer that supports many document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS, OXPS, XPS), and Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ). [3]
An estimated 15% of GB links on Wikipedia are dead (404). An even larger percentage of the page previews no longer work and redirect to the "About this book" page. Google is not a library nor archive for long term preservation. Books can and do disappear at any time. Publishers can withdraw permissions to view book previews at any time.