Now I hate to admit this because for the past couple years I've publicly bashed this company and even had a teleconference argument with its founder, yet now I find myself using it more and more...Google Books. I always felt Google Books was 'stepping on our toes' as a librarian and I knew that in the short term they wouldn't be able to digitize or make public complete copies of many books, either due to remaning copyrights or simply time. But in the past couple of days I have been using it more and more and not even to read an entire book, but to read just enough to figure out whether it'd be worth ordering from the library or even to buy. I never realized the advantage Google Books had in its previews! I compare it to wandering through Indigo and reading a few chapters here and there before deciding whether to go ahead and buy the item...except this way I can do it from my home, in my pyjamas! Also, with some books, I found that I obtained enough information simply from its limited preview without having to read the entire item. And thus, I find myself perusing the aisles of Indigo and the library much less. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to grab a great read from the truck of new books and feel like I've won the lottery, but more and more I'm dependent on the information I can get online. I think Google Books has and will continue to change the way the library works. It is putting greater pressure on us to get newer items out faster and to have more copies available. I can see myself one day in the future, sitting behind the reference desk after someone's asked to place a hold on an item that is not on the shelf, and replying "Would you instead like to book some computer time so you may read the book or a portion of it from Google?"