Google has been digitalizing books of all sorts since a while. Understandably, they have also digitalized books pertaining to fig growing. This great feature It can be used to view books on any subjects but in this case our interest is figsā¦
Keep in mind that the books are copyrighted so Google zaps some pages off. However, when you do a search it will show you results with pages you can read.
Also make sure to switch in Showing : All Books to Limited Preview and full View. This way you will be able to view books that you can read.
The concept is the same as searching web pages with Google except in this case you are looking for books.
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