Hurrah for books!

" ... There is fantastic information in books. Often when I do a search, what is in a book is miles ahead of what I find on a Web site,” according to Sergey Brin, a Google founder and its president of technology, as quoted in the Jan. 5, 2009, edition of the New York Times.

Brin was interviewed in the story "Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books," by Motoko Rich, who covers the books beat for the Times. The article does a good job giving an update on the Google book project, the recent copyright lawsuit settlement, etc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html