Google has made all 1.5 million public domain books it has, available for phones for free via Google Book Search Mobile.

It should work on all iPhones and all Android Phones. Note that these books were already available for free via Google Book Search as images of the book pages. To enable these books for mobile Google had to use Optical Character Recognition – somewhat akin to handwriting recognition.

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