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Google Book Search steals a Christmas Carol? (well not really)

Eoin Purcell

If Google are to be believed
GBS linked to this page of books including Dickens’ classic tale. You will see that the books are all limited preview and available to buy, yet Dickens is long dead and his books firmly in the public domain, surely they could have dreged up a version that was free to view and possibly free to download in their PDF versions?

Look what I found
Well you can. Here is the book for download from Google and here it is from Gutenberg.

Wondering why they didn’t link directly
Eoin

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