How to link to individual titles on Google Books

You can link to a specific book or a specific edition of a book. If you click Link  from within a book, it generates a link that you can share with others.

Google Books can also retrieve books based on:

• International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs)
• Library of Congress Control Numbers (LCCNs)
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) record numbers

To find the ISBN search for it on Google Books and check its "About this Book" page. For books published before 1970, use LCCN or OCLC records.

To find books by LCCN or OCLC number insert the LCCN or OCLC number into the approriate URL:

Identifier Example URL ISBN http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521349931 OCLC http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC17546826 LCCN http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN88005048

You can also link to specific pages in some books. These pages include:

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Index page
• Back cover

If Google can't find the specific page you want, the "About this book" page opens instead.

To find one of these pages in a book, add the name of the page to the end of the URL like this:

Page Example URL Front cover http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC17546826&printsec=frontcover Title page http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC17546826&printsec=titlepage Copyright page http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN88005048&printsec=copyright Table of contents http://books.google.com/books?id=05R7kYOKD0cC&printsec=toc Index http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521349931&printsec=index Back cover http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC17546826&printsec=backcover