[greglindahl]

The public benefit of searching the books isn't fully realized, alas, until more than just Google can see all of the text. Here's an example of a book discovery tool built using the Internet Archive's scanned book collections:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-book...

https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/?q=Gregorian+Calendar&y...