On Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 5:43:09 PM UTC-4, Dekatron42 wrote: > > Don't forget Hathi Trust, they have a lot of goodies. >
The problem with Hathi is that they take the word of whoever scanned the book regarding copyright status. For example, works by the [US] government and many of the US states cannot, by law, be copyrighted. Yet Hathi blocks downloading of the, restricting them to the first 2 categories listed below. When I contacted them about that they said "yes, we know, but..." and said that if I gave them a list of specific titles, they'd have their copyright review team take a look at them. When I said "this annual government report 1856-1992" they told me they didn't take ranges and to list the titles individually. Note that they just wanted the titles, not the URLs, so this was unnecessary work for both them and me. BTW, Hathi has [at least] 3 levels - 1) Can search the book but not vew any text 2) Download restricted to partners only, and 3) Can be downloaded by anyone. The second one allows individual page views and there are a number of utilities (like Hathi Download Helper) that download individual pages and combine them into the book. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1c69bfe6-0fe7-4dd4-a7ad-8f7c9abbdb58%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
