Today, Google launched a ton additional improvements. In an announcement, the Google books team revealed not one or two, but seven new features within their book-archiving service. Here's what has changed:
1. Easier embeddability: Embedding books was possible before through a complicated Embedded Viewer API, but now it's as simple as a YouTube snippet. Like so:
2. Better context with book search: When your'e doing a keyword search, you'll see more of the context around it to better understand what you've actually found. You can also sort these new results by relevance and use "Previous" and "Next" buttons.
3. Thumbnails: There's a new thumbnail book view!
4. New Contents Menu: It's a new dropdown menu that allows you to jump to different chapters in a book.
5. Plain Text Version: Google says that this feature is meant for the visually impaired.
6. Page Turn Button: This feature reminds me a bit of the Kindle's page turning features. It's even animated.
7. Enhanced Overview Page: The overview page has information like reviews, ratings, tagged words, and more. Here's one for the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell:
