Michael Hart writes:
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
My searches at Google have found about 50K books, with another 42k+ books that ought to be available but are not because Google appears to be not making books available if there's a publication date and no copyright date. I don't know how to find books from the OCA, or Yahoo.
Is this the kind of search we were discussing before, searching for commonplace words in the Google Book Search area, or have you found a better way? Perhaps you would be willing to post a list, or send it to me privately?
They were found by doing keyword searches. Google Books now makes it easier to determine whether the book can be viewed in full. From the Google Book search page, they now indicate whether the book is either full view, snippet view, or no view. I'm not making a full list available anymore, at least not as a single download, because it took several minutes to download it from my site, and I was getting too many download requests from people who were downloading it because it was showing up at web search engines. I am currently working on loading MARC entries from several libraries for the books I've found, and will be supporting standard typical MARC tag searches (subject, author, publisher, language, etc.). My long term goal is to do the same for as many of the public domain image archives as I can. I still need to clean up the MARC entries, and the searches have not been implemented, but the website and displays of the Google Book entries and the MARC entries are at http://pdbooks.zuhause.org/