If you haven’t tried Google Book Search yet, try it out on a few of my books.
If you have the time, you can read the whole book online:
- Critical Care: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
- White Man’s Grave: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
- Brain Storm: A Novel, by Richard Dooling;
- Bet Your Life: A Novel, by Richard Dooling
Google’s book scanning project is controversial (see, e.g., Google’s Moonshot, by Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker), but a quick survey of the titles available shows that most publishers are wisely going along with the plan.
Boy, I really appreciate your stuff being free, but I guess I’m just too old fashioned to truly enjoy reading a book online. I tried reading the only book of yours I haven’t read yet, WHITE MAN”S GRAVE, but I need to be on the couch on my back with the actual book in my hand. I like the texture of the binding, the feel of turning the pages, the weight of the thing.
Maybe one day they’ll come up with an electronic book reader that simulates that experience, but I haven’t seen it yet. For reference materials, the readers are probably great. But pleasure reading for fiction demands the real thing.
Left by John on February 18th, 2008