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by speedplane 3146 days ago
Google books is done. Yes, the website is up, but they aren't scanning new books and gave up on the backlog. Try it yourself, go look for any book published since 2016.
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Wasn't there a large lawsuit that stopped that one?
Nope, Google won.
That's the most unsettling part. They got a monopoly on online book previews, and abandoned it.