Google Books can now be embedded into a blog or website as announced today by in The Official Google Blog - Collect, share, and discover books:
"...We've also launched a way to let users, select, copy and embed segments of public domain books (like the Newton quote) in any web page. We hope to make it as easy to blog and quote from a book as it is from any web page. Like many innovations at Google, a stellar summer intern worked on this."
Hmm... what do I or can I embed here?
Pretty cool! Paul Cezanne...BTW, my favorite painter. I wanted to embed text rather than the image of it, but I was not able to. Still, I feel this is a great step forward for Google Books, and interestingly enough, it started as a modest project by a stellar summer intern who worked on this .
"...You can now highlight a section of text in any public domain book in Book Search, create a clip from it, and share it with the world. You can post your favorite clips to your blog along with a personal annotation, collect them in a Google Notebook, or share them with friends anywhere you decide to embed the link. Your clip looks exactly as it appears in the book, or if you prefer plain text, we have that too."
Funny, but this one new feature of Google Books, I find, is one of the most impressive things that Google has done lately...but that's just my opinion.
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