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Thursday, January 30, 2020

How to post Google Book excerpts etc.

FYI-

  1. Go to Google Books. If the selection you want to excerpt has a Preview, click on it.
  2. Click on the link icon above the book.
  3. Copy ("Ctrl-C") the Embed code that just popped up.
  4. Paste ("Ctrl-V") that code into your post.
For instance,


How to post a snippet of text and link to the rest of it:
  1. Copy the selection you want to excerpt.
  2. Paste that into your post.
  3. If it doesn't display correctly, highlight it and click on the "Remove formatting" (Tx) icon 
  4. Type ("continues") at the end of the text ...
  5. Highlight ("continues") ...
  6. Paste the URL address onto ("continues")
For instance,

In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime
by Dwight Garner

The best thing about being God, Iris Murdoch wrote, would be making the heads. The best thing about writing speculative or dystopian fiction, surely, is updating human language, pushing strange new words into a reader’s mind.
Gish Jen’s densely imagined if static new novel, “The Resisters,” is set in a future surveillance state known as AutoAmerica. The ice caps have melted, and much of the land is underwater. A racial and class divide has cleaved the population... (continues)

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