Hi Mike!Thanks for such a detailed explanation of how to search for snippets or read the previews on books.google.com. I tried it a little, but haven't had a chance to do much, because the internet was down for a while over here this evening.
Debby At 07:40 PM 11/1/2009, Mike wrote
Use books.google.com instead of www.google.comThen put in the title of the book (and maybe the author to make sure the right book is at the top of the list).The first link is usually the google book, but occasionally it is the second or thirdWhen you select the link for the title of the book, near the top of the page should be four links: overview, preview, reviews and buy. It may say full preview, partial preview or no preview. Below that will be a search box, unless there is no preview. If it has full preview (mostly public domain books, but a few publishers/authors have given permission for full previews of current books).If it has partial preview, only some pages are available, but you can get snippets from any page by searching for a word or phrase from the book.If there is a search box on the preview page (not the main google search box which will still be at the top of the page), put any phrase from the book into it (if you want to search for an exact pharase, put quotes around it like "the swift brown fox").It should then give you a list of snippets with page numbers at the beginning of each.If the phrase is on a preview page, you can select the page number link and it will go to the full page.If the page with the snippet is not part of the preview, the page number will not be a link and at the end of the snippet it will say, "no preview available for this page."For example, I am proofing Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. I put that in books.google.comThe first link is the book I want. I select that.After the overview, preview, Reviews, buy links is a search box. I want to know if the word "gormless" on page 18 is what is really there or if it is a scanno. There is no preview for that page, but I put the word in the search box and get the resultSo far, he'd successfully played the gormless foreign engineering contractor with a runaway mouth,So, it must be invented SF slang. Or say on another page the bookshare book haslike so many intelligent men who survived the elite bo-&>ol system, he was also inclined to intellectual rigidityI put rigidity in the search box and get the phrase right after what I want (ok, it doesn't always work perfectly).So, instead I put in elite. This time I getand almost painfully unskilled in the social nuances: like so many intelligent men who survived the elite boarding school system, he was also inclinedAnd there is the phrase I want "boarding school" instead of "bo-&>ol"And in case Evan who scanned Singularity Sky reads this, that phrase was not actually mangled, but I did want to know if "gormless" was really there.By the way, in a previous post I said the snippets are now in text, making them accessible to screen readers. That is not completely true. Apparently google is in the process of doing this, but it is kind of randomly available. The "no preview" snippets are always text, but the snippets for pages that do have a preview are sometimes only images and sometimes text.Well, on the books.google.com home page, it still says beta. I guess that's why things are still changing. Let's hope the changes are mostly in the better, more accessible direction.Misha Cindy wrote:Mike, is there a special place to put titlesor snippets of sentences in google to look for pages in a book, other than the ordinary search?CindyWish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites belowWish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+ListBooks Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: for shelly, about Fossil Follies To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 1:23 PM Apparently, google hasn't scannedFossil Follies. When I put that title in, it says "no preview" and there is no search box to useto get snippets. I wonder if they have done many children's books. As I understand it, most of what they have scanned is from university libraries. By the way. to get to the scanned books, it's now best to go to books.google.com I am sure that not so long ago I could use book: "book title" in regular google and it would put google books entries first, but it doesn't seem to work now. Sorry this didn't work. It looks like a book I would have loved as a kid. Misha Cindy wrote:How do you get the google books and page es? I triedputting the p. 14 question in google and didn't get anywhere--and the dinosoaurus egg just got me science infoCindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection)and books-being-scanned list available at sites belowWish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+ListBooks Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:From: Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: for shelly, aboutFossil FolliesTo: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6:29 PM Hi laurie, I believe it is supposed to be dinosaurus egg, As for the second one, no clue. I can borrowthe bookagain, but it might take some time. Thesewere librarybooks and not in the best of shape, smile. But I will rerequest the book. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori" <lori@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:58 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] for shelly, about FossilFolliesHi, Can you write me off list as I have a couplequestionsabout Fossil Follies.I will go ahead and place my questions below.Otherthan these I have the book ready to be checkedin.Is each joke suppose to have a Q: and A: also,acouple of times the words have gotten chopped atthe end. Inmost cases it is easy to figure out what it is.Page 10 I am not sure if this is complete: What do you get if you break saurus egg? A really big omelet. (Is it just suppose to be saurus, or is thereapartial word missing?)And page 14: I believe ther is a word missingafterthey:Why did dinosaurs enjoy the day they Because it was the living end. Lori@xxxxxxxxxxxx or twilight2@xxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, Lori To unsubscribe from this list send a blankEmail tobksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in thesubjectline. To get a list of available commands,put theword 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Emailtobksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in thesubjectline. 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