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I don't get why there should be, because I highly doubt it's fully legal. Google lets you view the books partially or fully, but the restrictions are in place for a reason. Actually there's still some that argue Google isn't doing this the way it should be done by letting people see the books without charge in the first place. Therefore I guess that small utility is in the grey zone of il/legalness..
If you really need the book, buy it. If you can't buy it, visit your library; if your nearest library does not have the copy, they can probably get it from another library, or if not, you should visit that library in the first place. I can't really imagine a situation where you cannot live without the book but refuse to pay for it. And if you just need a little peek, you can well do it from within the Google service, without needing to download the whole thing to your harddisk.
Note: a lot of things you can get from the web, some fairly easily, as full copies straight to your disk. Yet not all of that is legal. And do remember that some ordinary PDF files you can view are "secured" too, so that you can't for example save a copy of them or edit them or do some other things; these restrictions are put in place because of a reason, and if you can get around them it doesn't mean you should.
Last edited by b0uncer; 11-08-2009 at 02:27 PM.
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