Embed Books in a Web Page
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I never used to like reading books on a computer. However, I've
recently started to do this more regularly (even reading some books
on my iPhone), so I've gotten interested in different online
reading alternatives. Google recently made available a way to easily
embed a book in a web page. Of course, you're limited to those
books that are carried by
Google Book Search, and many books will only have a
limited preview available; however, it is still useful to be able
to search a book or to quickly skim through a book online to determine
whether you would want to buy it (although Amazon has provided such
functionality for a long time, their previews are much more limited). Google also provides a
number of other API's that allow you to make use of specific
Google Book Search functionality on your own web pages, so you can do
some interesting, custom things with the books. Here's an
example of embedding
CLtL2 in a web page:
