Take a quick break and enjoy some of the beautiful floral illustrations in the Google Books corpus: blog.google/products/searc…

It's easy to guess what we're celebrating this #HappinessDay -- nothing puts a smile on our face like sharing a good book! Find your next great read at books.google.com.

So very pleased to start our work with the Royal Library of Belgium! kbr.prezly.com/kbr-and-google…

Some spicy research in the field of book preservation, with thoughtful commentary from one of our partner libraries at the University of Michigan. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Curl up with a spooky Halloween story with Google Books @google blog.google/products/searc…

Thanks for the #Google Birthday wishes, Orkney Library!

READ the 26 March, 1897 issue of the ‘British Journal of Photography’ about the Jennings ‘lightning photography’ (page 204) as well as many other photographic topics of that time, at Google Books -30- google.ca/books/edition/… -30-

One of the lovely things on google books is having access not only to pretty much any 16th-century text but also finding the annotations of previous owners -- and in this case quite a famous humanist. google.co.uk/books/edition/…

We've taken a page out of the self-help section and been working on ourselves. Check out some of our newest features!

*An exception for the books they've digitized with Google Books. Those you can browse from the comfort of your own home wearing as much or little clothing as you wish 😉

For all of you bird watchers out there!

These lovely engravings of birds of prey are from La Fauconnerie, printed in Paris in 1605 (BL 1040.c.6.(1.)).

Freely available on the Library's Universal Viewer or Google Books!

Commemorate #Juneteenth2023 with these book recommendations, all of which are free of charge.
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Petrus Hortensius is probably Peter van den Hove. He owned this Greek book on church history. In 1599, he was 'baryphonus' of St Gudula's cathedral in Brussels. Google helpfully translates this as 'baryphone'. Was he the organist?

I love Google Books! I type in John Rowe's Diary, the Boston merchant, and there it is at my finger tips albeit with edits from his GGG niece circa 1903.

I've been having a lot of fun messing around with the Google Books Ngram Viewer. Kind of like Google trends but it's looking specifically at books. Below are uses of the word 'nuclear' in English vs. Russian books. Pretty neat! 🤓 books.google.com/ngrams/

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope.'

Try asking Bard a question like, 'What books should I read if I liked _______?'

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Michael Nuñez Sheel Mohnot Paul Graham Lindsey Kratochwill You can also head to Google Books to read all of our archived issues up through 2009! books.google.com/books/about/Po…

A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that not a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a blue checkmark.