This is not something Google should brag about. The eBooks are utter crap!
Exhibit One, the original image scan:
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Exhibit Two, the ePub text:
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A typo right at the start. And it gets worse! There are typos throughout and paragraphs are even broken up too!
Exhibit Three, the Table of Contents is just an image scan with no links:
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I really don't know why I expected this to be worthwhile. I've been down this road before: Google Book Search Goes Mobile: Teh Suckage
Now all you Google Book Settlement supporters: How about considering that this is what will happen to the millions and millions of Settlement books too!
For those who are technically minded, here are two screensnaps of the underlying XML:
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