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I'm thrilled with this decision. Google Books has already provided me with hundreds of public domain books that I could not have found without them. And now with this agreement, the frustration of knowing a book is there, yet unavailable will be a thing of the past. No longer will I sigh in defeat when a book that's still in copyright even though it's out of print is denied me.
The used book business will suffer from this, though, and I am sad about that. I have been able to purchase quite a few OOP books that I first learned about through Google Books, some at fairly high cost, but now that book buying will be reduced considerably.
While I agree about wanting readers and text and all of that, to be honest, I'm so happy to just have the contents of the book available to me, it seems horribly ungrateful of me to complain about the format. I'll take PDFs over nothing any day!
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