[Web4lib] "hacking" Google Book Search to get whole contents

[Leo Robert Klein]

Jeremy Dunck wrote:
> This (juvenile) forum post shows a pretty simple way to get the whole
> contents of a book by progressively searching for terms on subsequent
> pages.
> 
> http://www.techenclave.com/forums/read-any-book-google-techenclave-exclusive-6234.html
> 
> Summary:
> Find a term within a book you'd like to read.
> Execute a search on that.  Book Search will let you see the preceeding
> and subsequent 3 pages.
>>From the first/last page in that context view, take a, uh, statisticly
> improbably search phrase, and repeat your search.  This will basically
> shift your window into the book to the earlier/later pages.

Schees, it'd be a whole lot easier to borrow the thing from a library 
and type it out.  If I were going to bootleg publications on a massive 
scale, that's how I'd go about it.

LEO

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