There are thousands - actually millions of digital books online - right now. Books that we can use (for free) in our genealogy research - county histories, city directories, genealogies and more. To make it easy to see the scope of what is available I have pulled together over 500 titles - all digital copies - and you may search on every word in each of these books. A lot of these are New York items - over 100 of them. Go ahead and use it at: http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/ Just click on the link and start searching. It's free - no registration etc. I'll keep adding more titles every day.