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JohnR

Google Books URL

Legg inn av JohnR » 20 mar 2007 10:03:22

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

Alan R Grey

Re: Google Books URL

Legg inn av Alan R Grey » 20 mar 2007 20:08:33

JohnR wrote:
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

John Brandon

Re: Google Books URL

Legg inn av John Brandon » 20 mar 2007 20:26:42

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

Alan R Grey

Re: Google Books URL

Legg inn av Alan R Grey » 20 mar 2007 21:37:09

John Brandon wrote:
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

Matthew Connolly

Re: Google Books URL

Legg inn av Matthew Connolly » 20 mar 2007 21:45:11

On Mar 20, 8:26 pm, "John Brandon" <starbuc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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...

John Brandon

Re: Google Books URL

Legg inn av John Brandon » 20 mar 2007 21:57:33

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.

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