In which I (gasp!) say something nice about Google Books

After raging so long against the machine that is GoogleBooks, I feel compelled to note that two things made me very happy yesterday:

• While searching around on Topic X, I discovered a number of previously-unnoticed connections involving Topic Y.  This has set the little grey cells going.
• While pursuing the newly-uncovered Topic Y, I found the full texts of a number of great (er, "great") Victorian Catholic novels.  As Victorian Catholic fiction is much more difficult to find in the wild--or even domesticated in a library--than the Protestant species, I was Very Pleased indeed.  (The same search also turned up some interesting Catholic nonfiction, including a history of England for children.)