Read Online Books for Free

Google Book Search is periodically improved with new features, the parent company struggling to make the product the richest in its category when it comes to the content it offers. Every once in a while, Google signs deals with libraries and universities to digitize their content and offer it to the Internet users. However, the Mountain View company did another move today when it decided to roll out a brand new feature to make the solution more accessible. Basically, the text layer ability allows the users to view only the text of a book without images, covers and other information.

This is useful especially for blind people because they are able to attach screen readers or Braille devices in order to read the content offered by Google Book Search. Until now, the search giant displayed text, pictures, author information and other type of details concerning the books.

"Today we launched a new feature for Book Search to help more people access the world's great public domain works. Whenever you find an out-of-copyright book in our index, you'll see a "View plain text" link, which lets anyone access the text layer of the book. As Dr. T.V. Raman explains on the main Google blog, this opens the book to adaptive technologies such as screen readers and Braille display, allowing visually impaired users to read these books just as easily as users with sight," Bethany Poole, Product Marketing Manager, said today.

In the recent period, Google Book Search was promoted as the main search technology able to find books from any corner of the world. And it is. But with the recent Google efforts to improve the solution, Book Search is able to become a real encyclopedia for the Internet users looking for information. Take the example of the partnerships with the US universities meant to digitize the offline content and publish it on the Internet. Any interested user from every corner of the world can access these books for free using a simple Internet connection.