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I don't know if this qualifies as a HN question... ;-) Could you provide some links where a book i ONLY available on Google Books? On the left side of the book
by moontear 16y ago
I don't know if this qualifies as a HN question... ;-)
Could you provide some links where a book i ONLY available on Google Books? On the left side of the books you usually have all the sellers of the book "Get this book".
Some old books which are out of copyright you can get via different sources (e.g. Project Gutenberg)
- hacjjjjjjjj 16y agoLike this one, I am learning for typography it is available only in Google Books no other online or physical store. http://books.google.com/books?num=13&id=zpfgAAAAMAAJ&q=Devanagari#search_anchor http://books.google.com/books?num=13&id=zpfgAAAAMAAJ&...
- michael_dorfman 16y agoWell, somebody on Flickr has it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/3867449610/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/3867449610/ If it is as rare as it appears to be, I suppose I'd put photos of my copy on Flickr, too. Seriously, though: this looks like an ideal candidate for "Inter-Library Loan". Go to your nearest library, and ask them to get it for you from one of the (few, large) libraries that has it.
- hacjjjjjjjj 16y agoThis book is only available in the central libary of India which don't have any policy of inter-library loan. So, if google has scanned it why not give it to download ?
- michael_dorfman 16y agoPresumably because the copyright holders are not willing to allow them to do so. Google doesn't decide these things on their own, of course. Now, why wouldn't the original copyright holder waive the rights? I'm guessing that, since the title seems to have been published by a local government, for purely bureaucratic reasons rather than ones of ideology. Are there really no other libraries that have it? I'd be shocked if it's not in the Library of Congress, the British Library, or Widener.