Thread: Scan your books and search them on Google
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Old 06-08-2009, 11:43 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by cjcherryh View Post
I take it this refers to the cover only. To include actual book content would not be fair use, and would be, in effect, a pirate copy.
Google Books treats different books differently. Some only have metadata, others offer a partial preview, others are fully downloadable. Which is which depends, in part, on the publisher. (There was a lawsuit and the agreement born therefrom governs Google's digitization of still under copyright books.)

- Ahi

Ps.: Searching the book (with only a sentence's or two's worth of text surrounding the "hit" being displayed) might be available even for books that offer no preview though.
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