Actually, after looking at this further, it appears that you've never
going to get a title page for "snippet view" either. "Snippet view"
means that Google will not show you any complete pages (not even the
title page), but only "cuttings" or "snippets" from the page that match
your search results.
[ Oddly, for "full view" books, you generally get textual search results
for search inside the book. For "snippet" books, which won't let you see
the full text, you get pictorial page-image "snippets" in your search
results showing matches, which are arguably more useful and elegant, but
are only provided for books which _won't_ show you page images of the
complete book, as far as I can tell! ]
Jonathan
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> 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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Jonathan Rochkind
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Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Tue Jul 01 2008 - 16:05:28 EDT