A Google search led me to a document called American Mercury, first issue of an anthology-type periodical dated January 1924, co-edited by H.L. Mencken and including some of his essays.

I wanted to bookmark this document because it was interesting reading. But I didn’t want to bookmark it targeting my search—just the document itself.

I can’t seem to get at it in its own right. Instead, when I search on it, all I find is copies for sale. I don’t want to buy a copy. I just want to look at it online the same way as I saw it from my search, but without all the highlighted search terms.

Do you know how to access Google Books as a resource and not as a marketed product? Or am I just silly to think there is a way?

Topics: search, google books, Online documents, American Mercury, 1924, H.L. Mencken