One of the most useful, if often-overlooked, features of Google Book Search is the ability to enter your own books and create a personal library which you can then search if Google has scanned those ...

Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google’s book search is clearly on track to becoming the world’s largest digital library. No ...

Massachusetts police apologized for searching an eighth grade classroom this week for the often-banned book "Gender Queer" after an unidentified person complained it contained pornographic images.

If you're reading a long book – especially one with a lot of characters – on your Amazon Kindle reader, being able to navigate to specific sections within it is an important feature. Kindles don't ...

Scott Rosenberg is an editor at Backchannel. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. To answer such questions, you need Google Book Search, the tool that magically scours the texts of millions ...