December 5, 2006 9:00 PM PST
Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Live Search Books on Wednesday. The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project, in the same way that Windows Live Search searches the Internet.
Microsoft has restricted the beta release of Live Search Books to only include noncopyright books scanned from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto.
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