More Features for Google Book Search

Google Book Search is an innovative search engine provided by Google that allows users to search for books, titles and authors from all around the world. The results will display information about books and also places where you can borrow or buy them.

Even if it's still in beta, Google Book Search being released on October 24, 2006, the service is becoming more and more popular.

Now, after almost a month since the launch date, Nathan Naze, Software Engineer, announces new features and presented them on the blog.

"In an effort to make online book reading easier, we've given our product the same treatment. I'm tremendously excited to announce the first fruits of these efforts. Here's a quick tour of some of the changes:
- Zoom in on text and images
- One book, one web page. No more reloads! In one-page mode pages appear one below the other, like a scroll of paper. For full-view books, there's also a two-page mode in which pages appear side by side, just like in a physical book
- Scroll, scroll, scroll your book… using the scrollbar or your mouse wheel, or by dragging. You can also use the keyboard (try the spacebar, page up, page down, and the arrow keys). Or you can click on a link in the table of contents or your search results to jump right to that page
- This page was made for reading. We've tried to tidy up the clutter to leave as much room as possible for what's important - the book. We've put all the information about the book in a scrollable side menu.
- Explore citations and references. You can also find other books that refer to your book of interest. If scholarly works from Google Scholar have references to the book, you'll see them too."