I HATE GOOGLE

have you tried
https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
?

thanks -- the advanced search does have more features, but unfortunately you still get the same limited number of results when you search for a term within the text of the books

nice , it looks like google just crippled another of its products :D:D:D:D:D

until recently the results page for google groups (google's usenet search engine) looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qurZwr3.jpg

each result would have the subject line and group name on one line, and beneath that would be a decent-sized snippet containing your search terms, similar to the regular google web search

in the new layout, the subject lines, group names, and snippets are crammed into a single line for each result:

https://i.imgur.com/yRD6Uy4.jpg

some of the snippets are as short as five words long and don't even include the search terms, making it difficult to determine which results are relevant without clicking through to the messages. until recently you could revert back to the "classic" (i.e. functional) layout, but that's no longer possible

it's kinda sad that I've been bumping this thread for eight years, but the hits just keep on comin'