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The document helps explain why we prefer not to use Google Books (GB) where better options exist.
A 48-hour EventStream poll showed about 400 new Google Books links being added per day to the English Wikipedia (Feb 2020).
<search term> site:archive.org
(example). Note that Google indexes only a small part of the Internet Archive content.