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Here's an easy example... Google Books has many old issues of Popular Mechanics which exist in full downloadable form on the Internet Archive -- yet you can onl
by mimixco 8y ago
Here's an easy example... Google Books has many old issues of Popular Mechanics which exist in full downloadable form on the Internet Archive -- yet you can only see individual pages on Google Books and can't download the magazine.
This is because Google Books is acting like they own the copyright (or, at least, they feel the need to police it.)
There are many cases where you can download the entire book from Hathi Trust when you are sitting at a university library, giving you a PDF you can use anywhere. But you cannot even see the entire book or download it from Google Books (which has given its scan to Hathi). This is just stupid.