eBooks available from your local library will now show in Google search results

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Google has added a new feature to Search that will show you if your local library has the ebook you’re looking for in stock. If you’re old like me and didn’t know that you could borrow ebooks, well you can, and many libraries across the US have a digital collection that you can borrow from.

Source: Google will now show you what ebooks are available in your local library – The Verge

When you do a search for a book, look on the right side. Under Buy book there is a box for Borrow ebook.

From there you can select the library you want to use or edit your location.

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