tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post8741436978778560898..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-5579514059599236262009-07-18T23:04:42.215-04:002009-07-18T23:04:42.215-04:00I, too, adore what Google Books offers. I cannot c...I, too, adore what Google Books offers. I cannot count the times I have been able to track down information that I'd not been able to locate through more traditional, land-based venues. Google Scholar, as you seem to imply, has been considerably less helpful, especially when compared with, say, JStor.<br /><br />Great blog you've got here!Sobriquet Magazinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146978394033288780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-65908420739829193202009-06-19T21:47:25.135-04:002009-06-19T21:47:25.135-04:00I’ve always appreciated Google Books for this very...I’ve always appreciated Google Books for this very reason, and they’ve been steadily improving the user interface over the last couple of years. Also, you can usually download PDFs of those old, hard-to-find books. I carry around a flash drive with Joseph Wright’s and Henry Sweet’s primers, Skeat’s etymological dictionary, Bosworth/Toller — among many other things. Also: for what you can’t find on Google Books, try Archive.org for plenty of other old books.Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.com