John Hagerson wrote:
She found a book that she was interested in reading, but she could not figure out how to download it. After some back and forth, I found that she had apparently used one of the full text search engines which found a citation of an interesting book within one of the copyright renewals files.
This may be an isolated instance. However, would it make sense to prevent the full text search engines from indexing the copyright renewal files?
That would make the copyright renewal files unusable for those who wanted to search them. Besides, that is another thing that would have to be maintained by hand ... better write it off as pilot error (and remember the story for the next time you need a good one.)
Would it make sense to add some text to the PG index page to indicate that the copyright renewal files list books that are NOT in PG, rather than books that are?
The note would be displayed on this page: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11800 but, if she got to that page, I dont see how she could possibly have mistaken the book for something else even without note. I guess she just looked at the file in the google cache and read the PG header. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org