The book dead? Long live the book!

Books may be delivered in new forms, audio, digitised, purchased online, but their death has clearly been exaggerated. Google has embarked with some of the world's leading libraries on a project to digitise the world's books. These can be searched and for those under copyright, extracts can be read. For older books, they can be read in their entirety.

Since they have been scanned, old books can be seen in their original form. Sections can be copied as an image, or text, or as an embeded image, like one of the most famous opening lines of a novel......