On 5/27/15 7:04 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
An interesting situation turned up today, tangentially involving Curl
and Google Books.

I have a list of old books I am looking to find, when I thought of Hathi
Trust. Searched and the book is there... Two volumes.

I started downloading the first volume, when I remembered your post
about also finding the book I mentioned on Google Books. Off to Google
Books.

Searched, and Google Books only has the first volume. Which I find
strange, given the fact that Google digitized the book to begin with.

But then, I don't trust Google any further than I can throw an elephant.
EU courts have just filed a lawsuit claiming Google weighs it's search
results in favor of things available from Google.

But for me, the real moral of this story is, don't just trust one source
you find on the web. Look everywhere you can think of, even WorldCat if
it's a book. I suggest World Cat because I found a copy of a particular
book at the Library of Congress. Only 5 locations total. Contacted the
LOC, no digitized version available. But they did scan it for me! So,
now I have a copy. So I might be luck some day with another book. :-)

Thought you might find the experience interesting.



A follow-up... The scan of the second volume is so crappy, maybe Google
didn't want it on their site! LOL

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Ken
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