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A statement in the article Palmyra was cited to content in an English-language work published in Japan, and available via Google Books' Snippet View. The claim itself isn't relevant here, and Snippet View search was sufficient to justify use of the material, which appeared on page 19.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
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".
Google Books sometimes allows numbered book pages to be linked to directly. Page links should only be added when the book is available for preview; they will not work with snippet view. Keep in mind that availability varies by location.
In many cases when converting an existing Google Books URL, only one of the above should be used. When multiple parameters are present, the final target page is much more likely to vary over time. If linking to a specific page, only use the page parameter, and if doing a text search then do not include the page parameter. Example 1:
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.
e-book pages, e.g. |pg=PT5, for the fifth page of an e-book (often not officially numbered) If the page is prefaced with RA-, that can usually be removed. The |keywords= parameter may be used to search for particular keywords within the text (corresponding to the q parameter in the Google URL); |text= searches for a quoted phrase (corresponding ...
The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to another, as well as to create, edit and publish e-books.