LIVE SEARCH BOOKS .. GOES LIVE

grannysrock · Post by **grannysrock** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:40 pm

According to the BBC you can search out of copyright books from The British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto from Thursday .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6213260.stm

BUT I just tried it and it seems to work already .

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books

Unlike the Google Book search - you can see the whole page, download the whole book .....

Sally

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:05 am

Well spotted Sally - this will keep me occupied for a long time. Thank you.

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

Post by **Anne H** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:14 am

Hi Sally,

This is brilliant...many thanks. It's wonderful to see the "real" thing!

Someone who had contacted me about one of my old posts on TS sent me a copy of a couple of the pages from "The Harp of Stirlingshire" a compilation of several different authors. One in particular was written by Charles James Finlayson who apparently was the youngest of ten children so I pulled it up hoping I might find a bit more info on his family that might connect him to my Finlaysons...but no such luck, as yet. James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd" is also supposedly connected to our Hogg/Finlayson family, so I'm hoping that just maybe, I'll find a little bit to my never ending puzzle. Thanks again.

Regards,
Anne H