Google have announced mobile access for their Google Book Search service to Android-based devices, such as the T-Mobile G1. The launch, which is also formatted for the Apple iPhone, offers 1.5 million books in the US and over half a million outside of the US that the search giant has digitized and made available online.
Although the titles – which are all public domain – have been available for some time now, what’s different is Google’s new mobile reader client. This portal, which can be accessed by visiting http://books.google.com/m, reformats the page layout to be more easily read on the small screen of a mobile device.
Available titles include everything from general fiction, through travelogues and philosophy, to textbooks and business manuals. Coincidentally, Amazon revealed this week that they are working on a mobile version of their ebook service, which will run on select cellphones.
Too bad everyone's caught up with RC33 right now.
Funny how they did this 2 days before the release of the Amazon Kindle II ;-)
Sorry for being a grammar Nazi. It is a curse.
I don't know where Chris is from, but the notion of a "collective" noun taking a singular verb is not followed on the other side of the pond. If you listen, for example, to Phil Ligget broadcast bicycle racing, he will say "The Discovery team are leading the peloton" whereas we would say "the team is."
He would also say "Google have".
BTW, this works great on my G1 but I don't know if I have the patience to go through as many screens as it takes to read something of any length.
EDIT: Well since I posted this, it shows Chris's location as being in London which explains it all.
I don't know where Chris is from, but the notion of a "collective" noun taking a singular verb is not followed on the other side of the pond. If you listen, for example, to Phil Ligget broadcast bicycle racing, he will say "The Discovery team are leading the peloton" whereas we would say "the team is."
He would also say "Google have".
BTW, this works great on my G1 but I don't know if I have the patience to go through as many screens as it takes to read something of any length.
EDIT: Well since I posted this, it shows Chris's location as being in London which explains it all.
Also I think there is a new app that links to the aforementioned google books, called I believe book? Haven't ran through it much yet. Anybody else?