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

[K.G. Schneider]

> On 11/28/05, Walt.Crawford at rlg.org <Walt.Crawford at rlg.org> wrote:
> > It's also worth noing that *this just won't work* for in-copyright books
> > from the Google Library Project, since you get three snippets, not three
> > pages. Quite apart from the likelihood that Google will figure out that
> > people are gaming the system and use cookies to prevent it...
> 
> Hmm, I guess I got lucky on the 3 books I picked at random.

Don't rule out Google reading and taking action on what people are
reporting--it's a company with real people in it, some of them probably
reading this very list, even if it projects the image of the world's largest
brain in a jar ;)

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com