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Google Print Hack: View and Read ALL Pages of ANY Book

Posted by Mike Bijon December 06, 2005

Since Google’s search supports using OR, it’s possible to find (almost) every page in a book with a simple search string. Find the book you would like to read, click on the book to pull up some result pages, then “search inside the book” with the string below. Just about every page will be in the search results:

and | but | of | a | on | or | the | from | I | you | it

There should be enough natural language that the pages gaps are less than 5 pages long - letting you “next page” through the gaps. I’ve already found one exception, Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity. Anyone have suggestions to improve on my search string above?

Update: Just one day later, they didn’t take long… Google Print now places a limit on the number of pages you can view in any single book.

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