My librarian told me to skip Google Books and I think she's wrong about it

Henry Nelson · 2026-10-28T23:10:02.858142+00:00

Last Thursday at the Evanston public library, a reference librarian named Dana shrugged when I asked about Google Books and said it was "a dead end for real research." I get why she says that, but for a 1923 seed catalog I was chasing, the full-text scan found one mention on page 47 that no archive index ever showed me. Am I the only one who thinks people write off Google Books too fast for old print stuff?

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