There are plenty of records in Google that are even _less_ than "limited
view".
In Google's interface, some records are noted as "no preview available",
and for these you aren't going to get a title page. However, it seems
that "snippet view", which is what google labels the one Karen points
out, _sometimes_ ends up being essentially "no preview available" too.
"Limited preview" and "full view" will always have a title page, I
think. "No preview available" will never. "Snippet view" will... sometimes.
[ And oddly, while there are FOUR viewability statuses I note in google
books own interface, I believe that the GBS API only provides _three_,
lumping "snippet" and "none" together? Maybe? Not sure.]
Jonathan
Karen Coyle wrote:
> James Weinheimer wrote:
>>
>> The possibilities with full-text Google Book searches may change some of
>> these considerations, though. The title page or book jacket is always
>> available on Google Books and may provide more paradata, while
>> scholars may
>> be able to see enough of a book to rule it out.
>>
>>
>>
> Lately I've been having trouble getting to the title pages on Google.
> I would have assumed that they were always available, even for the
> limited view books, but I often find that I either can't get to it, or
> it only displays as a small image and I can't enlarge it enough to
> actually read it.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ADY3AAAAIAAJ
>
> kc
>
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Received on Tue Jul 01 2008 - 15:45:48 EDT