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John Battelle has the best coverage and comment so far on Google Library which is the announcement that Google are teaming up with the university libraries at Stanford, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and also the New York Public Library to digitize substantial numbers of books from their collections.

The results of this collaboration will most likely appear in the Google Print format.

Google Print is currently rather a stange addition to Google results, in that you mostly have to stumble across the results, rather than being able to deliberately search for them. There isn't even a search box on the Google Print home page!

There are a couple of tricks however to target Google Print results:

• Make the first word of your query either book or books, followed by whatever you really want to look for, and the results page will have up to three matching books from Google Print listed at the top of the page.
• The older technique of using the "site:print.google.com" term in your search brings up magazine article results. Unfortunately many of these results then point at articles that appear to have themseleves been removed from the Google Print site - clicking on them currently gives a "Server Error" page.