The posting of helpful, or otherwise, of Google book searches would be
enhanced by a brief summary. The reason I mention this is because
some of us are unfortunate enough to live in a benighted country where
Google's copyright censorship means we cannot always view the link. A
summary might entice me to load the link into a proxy server to view
the item - or not, as the case may be.
John
Surrey, England
Google Books URL
Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper
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Alan R Grey
Re: Google Books URL
JohnR wrote:
My exact problem! Google Books is frustrating when it cannot be
accessed fully by those of us in other countries.
So does this mean there's a way of actually viewing books that cannot
otherwise be read or accessed? How it is done?
Alan R Grey
The posting of helpful, or otherwise, of Google book searches would be
enhanced by a brief summary. The reason I mention this is because
some of us are unfortunate enough to live in a benighted country where
Google's copyright censorship means we cannot always view the link.
My exact problem! Google Books is frustrating when it cannot be
accessed fully by those of us in other countries.
A summary might entice me to load the link into a proxy server to view
the item - or not, as the case may be.
So does this mean there's a way of actually viewing books that cannot
otherwise be read or accessed? How it is done?
Alan R Grey
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John Brandon
Re: Google Books URL
So does this mean there's a way of actually viewing books that cannot
otherwise be read or accessed? How it is done?
Alan R Grey
Here is what Chris Phillips said at one point:
For those in the UK and elsewhere who are having trouble viewing out-of-copyright material because of Google's over-cautious approach, this free anonymous proxy service provides a solution to the problem, by hiding the IP address of the visitor:
https://proxify.com/
Chris Phillips
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Alan R Grey
Re: Google Books URL
John Brandon wrote:
Thank you ... much appreciated.
Alan
So does this mean there's a way of actually viewing books that cannot
otherwise be read or accessed? How it is done?
Alan R Grey
Here is what Chris Phillips said at one point:
For those in the UK and elsewhere who are having trouble viewing out-of-copyright material because of Google's over-cautious approach, this free anonymous proxy service provides a solution to the problem, by hiding the IP address of the visitor:
https://proxify.com/
Chris Phillips
Thank you ... much appreciated.
Alan
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Matthew Connolly
Re: Google Books URL
On Mar 20, 8:26 pm, "John Brandon" <starbuc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Even so, you will find a lot of the material still only snippet views,
or simply unavailable- nobody gets to see everything. I was using it
just now, and a book of 1796 was only visible in snippets- but you can
sometimes see the adjacent fragment, if you do a search on the first
or last distinctive phrase of text that's visible, putting it in
quotes. Otherwise it has to go on a list of lookups for a library
visit...
So does this mean there's a way of actually viewing books that cannot
otherwise be read or accessed? How it is done?
Alan R Grey
Here is what Chris Phillips said at one point:
For those in the UK and elsewhere who are having trouble viewing out-of-copyright material because of Google's over-cautious approach, this free anonymous proxy service provides a solution to the problem, by hiding the IP address of the visitor:
https://proxify.com/
Chris Phillips
Even so, you will find a lot of the material still only snippet views,
or simply unavailable- nobody gets to see everything. I was using it
just now, and a book of 1796 was only visible in snippets- but you can
sometimes see the adjacent fragment, if you do a search on the first
or last distinctive phrase of text that's visible, putting it in
quotes. Otherwise it has to go on a list of lookups for a library
visit...
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John Brandon
Re: Google Books URL
Even so, you will find a lot of the material still only snippet views,
or simply unavailable- nobody gets to see everything. I was using it
just now, and a book of 1796 was only visible in snippets- but you can
sometimes see the adjacent fragment, if you do a search on the first
or last distinctive phrase of text that's visible, putting it in
quotes. Otherwise it has to go on a list of lookups for a library
visit...
Yep, the snippet views are very prevalent here (in the U.S.) too--I'd
say half the references pulled up are snippets.