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Feb. 5, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

An interesting post from the Inside Google Book Search blog today:

Today we are excited to announce the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books for you to browse while buying your postage.

While these books were already available on Google Book Search, these new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen. To try it out and start reading, open up your web browser in your iPhone or Android phone and go to http://books.google.com/m.

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chustar
on Feb 5, 2009
"...iPhone or Android phone..." Dear Google: There are other phones in the world, other smart phones, most of which have full browsing capabilities. S60? iPhone and Android are not the only phones in the world.
john87
on Feb 5, 2009
@chustar It's hardly surprising, Google and Apple love each other and would never give other companies a leg up- it irritates me to this day that whilst I am using my iMac I cannot change the search provider from Google or remove the search box itself in Safari. I blame Eric Schmidt; it seems to me that he's the thorn in MS's side. (P.S. New member, 99% Microsoft products, UK user etc)
Heatlesssun
on Feb 6, 2009
I just tried this on my WinMo phone, both Opera and IE and the site doesn't seem work. Yeah, the web targeted at specific devices. Just what I always wanted. It is a beta (well just released beta) however so I would expect things to improve.

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