Difference between revisions of "Google Books"
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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. | '''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 | 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 (for example, if the straightening algorithm produced a wobbly disaster), and they will be fixed if possible (meaning that Google has master scans that are not public). ([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. | 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. | ||
Latest revision as of 01:38, 26 October 2023
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| 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 (for example, if the straightening algorithm produced a wobbly disaster), and they will be fixed if possible (meaning that Google has master scans that are not public). ([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).