Less than 24 hours after Apple announces the Apple iPad, Google announces improvements to the Google Books home page.

The improvements include:

• You can now scroll through categories of books and magazines
• The My Library feature is now on the home page
• My Library selections can be kept private now
• You can now add one or more books to more bookshelves.

Related Topics: Google: Book Search

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