I did a search for books about massage and was surprised to see that of the first 30 books listed, our library had at least half of these- the majority of which are popular titles that our students use. In the event the popular titles were out on loan, our students could refer to these Google Books instead.
The downside to using Google books however, are the copyright limits imposed by authors and publishers. Many titles had "limited preview", showing you the first 20 or so pages (sometimes more), where others had a chapter or a page or 2 "randomly" omitted, which I would fine really annoying- especially if that particular chapter was of importance to me. Few did offer full-view access.
Whilst I can understand why safeguards like this are put into place, the fact that you can't download, cut and paste, or print any sections of these books should be enough to prevent users breaching copyright.
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