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'''Google Books''' is a Google service providing access to books. Books may be from its modern Google Play book marketplace; or scanned and OCR'd by Google and available because it is in the public domain; or scanned and OCR'd but withheld from public viewing because it is either still in copyright ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Legal_issues]) or was evaluated incorrectly. | |||
Scanned books are shared with [[HathiTrust]]. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust]) Books that are incorrectly withheld can be released if disputed. ([https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/43729?hl=en]) Bad scans can be reported, and they will be fixed accordingly. ([https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/43729?hl=en]) | |||
Google Books will challenge you with a classic Captcha if you click on more than one download PDF or EPUB link within a short time frame. | |||
The legacy Google Books viewer (sporadically replaced since 2021 with an inferior "modernized" viewer) has a dropdown menu in the top left and top right for OCR EPUB download ([https://books.google.com/books/download/Chinese_and_English_Cook_Book.epub?id=dhUEAAAAYAAJ&hl=ja&output=epub]), PDF download, and OCR text view ([https://books.google.com/books?pg=PT57&id=dhUEAAAAYAAJ&hl=ja&output=text], top right only). | |||
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Revision as of 20:37, 3 May 2022
Google Books | |
URL | http://books.google.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Google Books is a Google service providing access to books. Books may be from its modern Google Play book marketplace; or scanned and OCR'd by Google and available because it is in the public domain; or scanned and OCR'd but withheld from public viewing because it is either still in copyright ([1]) or was evaluated incorrectly.
Scanned books are shared with HathiTrust. ([2]) Books that are incorrectly withheld can be released if disputed. ([3]) Bad scans can be reported, and they will be fixed accordingly. ([4])
Google Books will challenge you with a classic Captcha if you click on more than one download PDF or EPUB link within a short time frame.
The legacy Google Books viewer (sporadically replaced since 2021 with an inferior "modernized" viewer) has a dropdown menu in the top left and top right for OCR EPUB download ([5]), PDF download, and OCR text view ([6], top right only).