Change in Google Books searching?

[Victor Steinbok]

Most of the previous features have been folded into the drop-down menus
that are being made somewhat consistent with other Google functions. The
"plain text" button is gone, but you can find it under the
Help/Technical menu on the far right. You'll find the download options
in the same menu--or by hovering over the EBOOK button. The "Find in a
Library link/button has also been folded into a menu--this one into Get
This Book In Print, right under "eBook-Free" button. The title has been
moved to the left column and the search-within box is right under it and
just above the About This Book link. Related Books can now only be seen
once you click that link. You can still see the list of all pages with
hits by clicking View_all in the pinkish search-result bar, just as you
did before (If there was another option to do this, I was not using it).
One annoyance that's new, however, is that when you click Plain Text, it
now always goes to the same page and you have to navigate from there
manually. It used to always show the current visible page (along with a
couple of neighboring pages). Now you have to verify what page you were
on before doing it.

     VS-)

On 12/16/2011 12:30 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Google Books searching seems to have changed in the last couple of
> weeks.  I don't see the former result where one could click on a
> citation in a list of hits, search within the book, and see a list of
> all the pages where the searched text occurred.  Now everything seems
> to be called a "Free Google eBook", and there is no search within"" box.
>
> Also, for some books I don't see a download (PDF) choice.
>
> Can someone enlighten me?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel

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