Count me as a Google Book lover, too. I find them a lot more readable than the ones at the Internet Archive, that's for sure. I can usually read around the OCR errors - I've bought books that were just as bad, or worse. For free, I'm certainly not going to grumble.
It's a priceless resource for historical research - being able to read what people wrote about their lives and their issues during the actual period is worth 100 times what any regurgitated historical analysis is.
It's also been a big help in my genealogical research.
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