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

[Ösp Viggósdóttir]

Actually this doesn't work, you can't read the whole book. I just tried it,
using the method people have been describing.

Google only allows you to look at a limited number of pages from the same
book, maybe 8-10 pages. When you exceed that number they block the pages!
You have to be logged in when viewing pages, so they can monitor what you
get to see.

You would have to have 30-40 different logins to download a whole book.
People would have to be very "dedicated" to bother, in my opinion.


Cheers,

Ösp Viggósdóttir
framkvæmdastjóri Haraldar íkorna
www.haraldur.is

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Ryan Eby
Sent: 28. nóvember 2005 21:39
To: Leo Robert Klein
Cc: Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] "hacking" Google Book Search to get whole
contents


Just to prevent confusion it should probably be noted that these books
are the ones that are part of the publisher program and not likely the
library one. The publishers give permission to show more that just
snippets which will allow problems like this. Amazon also has this
problem which I have used in the past with deadlines. This type of
thing would be much more difficult for books that are displayed with
the snippet view though I suppose you can find a string at the end of
your snippet to search for to get another sentence. An overview of the
various views are here:

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/screenshots.html

Ryan Eby

On 11/28/05, Leo Robert Klein <leo at leoklein.com> wrote:
> 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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