Google Books unveils magazine stand

A new digitised magazine stand has been unveiled by Google Books, including entire issues complete with advertisements.

Most issues in the archive are two or three-years-old, although some could even be a few decades old. The firm is scanning entire issues in their continuing quest to archive all media.

Using the new feature, people can look through magazine covers or an alphabetical list of titles. Links on the tables of contents of some issues enable users to go directly to specific articles.

The firm's software engineer Jeffrey Pang, who built the feature, said he gets requests from friends and family to allow them to browse all the magazines available on Google Books. Earlier, users had to search them individually.

"Someone even created a Facebook group called Get Google Magazine Search to provide a list of indexed titles," he wrote on the Google Book's official blog.

"The group has 45 members and growing, so before it reached millions of members and there were protests in front of my house, I decided that I better act fast."

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