Jim Panttaja

I have written on another blog about Google Books (in a post on Google Notebooks). Now Google has announced that you can identify a collection of books in your own library ( Google Books).

You can search against only your own set of books (which I do in my genealogy research), or you can do a more global search. You could also identify a set of books that are of interest to you (I have recorded the books I have co-written, or that I wrote a chapter of in my library). Those books may not be searchable (if their copyright is current – or they haven’t been scanned by Google). Here is a link to my library. I noticed while searching that Google has my name misspelled for one of my books.

You can also write reviews (you can view that as notes to yourself), and identify tags (Google calls them labels).

See my posting (referenced above) on Google Notebooks for examples of putting samples from books in to Google Notebooks. Sometimes you are on a roll searching – finding great stuff. Taking snippets as you find them and inserting them in to your notebooks means you can be sure that you won’t misplace the references.