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Re: Google Books international accessibility
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Apr 7, 00:08 +0300
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Apr 7, 00:08 +0300
Frank, just a few quick tests: First I thought that older books (before 1900) seem to be no problem, but this is not the case. From about 10 trials only half could be read. My IP points (still) to Turkey. Marcel On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Frank Reedwrote: > Antoine, re that book by Clarke, you wrote: > "For some reason I had/have not been able to take a look at thoses pages > earlier from the web." > > This maybe due to international copyright rules and laws. Could I ask you, > and any others on NavList who are not in the US, to try out some links for > me? Go here: http://www.fer3.com/arc/navbooks2.html and visit some of the > Google Books links. When you follow the link on each book to Google, you > should see some general information about the book along with a big button > that says "Read this book". Is that button visible for all of you? If it is, > could you verify that when you click on it, you can in fact visit the book > in question and read it. Thanks in advance. > > -FER > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------