Book Search Engine.

EarthWindandFire · Post by **EarthWindandFire** » Wed. May. 16, 2012 10:10 am

I was just reading an article by Ken Fisher who writes for Forbes. He mentioned that he likes collecting books, mostly about investing of course, and that he uses a search engine specifically for finding printed books.

The name of the site is AbeBooks.com and looks very user-friendly.

In this day and age of electronic media, it's good to have a source for the real thing, and an appreciation for the printed word!

Post by **Richard S.** » Wed. May. 16, 2012 12:01 pm

Google has search feature for books with some very long previews. First result for anthracite coal has a preview of 90 pages:
http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

Thousands of free books can be downloaded from here but these will all be old ones no longer copyrighted:
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Archive.org has yet another collection. They also have public domain music, video etc.
https://archive.org/details/texts

CoaLen · Post by **CoaLen** » Wed. May. 16, 2012 5:08 pm

Thanks Richard.

I'm going to bookmark this thread for future reference.
-Len