Thing : 14

Google Books :
I looked up books on grafting since a patron had requested material on this subject.
I found several and looked in the table of contents for subjects.
I was very impressed with Art of Grafting and Budding by Charle Baltet--copyright 1885. Of course all the pages were not there but to be able to view a book that old is awesome.

This is a very good way to find information if you don't have it available in the Library. You can go directly to the contents and scroll to the pages you need. And the more ways we have to find information for the patrons is always a plus.

I could even enter an ISBN in the search field.

Copyright--I can foresee a problem but how would it ever be controlled when it is wide open to the world? One book I looked at did have the words Copyright embedded in the print on every other page. This should help when printing.

I wouldn't use this site to read an entire book (unless it was very rare and the only way to have it) but for subject material it could be very good. I really didn't see anything I didn't like.