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In regard to caching, storing locally, and more.
Google hasn't been shy about introducing purpose built solutions, but their trend over time has been to migrate them to integrated platforms. You can see the ongoing convergence of google voice, picasa, google apps, google sites, gmail, and more. They are beginning to share contact lists, storage locations and capabilities.
Clearly, there long term vision is in the cloud, thus, the creation of a new operating system that is derived from the Google Chrome browser. However, they recognize that there will be times when the cloud is inaccessible (should we call it a blue sky since its a cloudless day?). People won't want to use their service if it doesn't include both an online and offline capability.
To this end, they have a concept called google gears that would allow you to pull down (download???) both applications and data. Specifically, the idea is that you could download a word processing application and a set of documents from the cloud. Then take off on a plane trip where you don't have access to the cloud. You will be able to edit existing (downloaded) documents and create brand new documents. When you reconnect your work will be automatically re-synched to the net.
I don't see any reason why their vision wouldn't support multiple downloaded 'books'.
Michael
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