Re" Beware....

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/29/2008 11:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>But I recall several occasions when a "snippet" view on Google Books
>came from an entirely different book.  Most reecently (last few
>days) the snippet view had to do with porn or bikinis while the
>supposed sourcehad been published in the 1850s.
>
>Beware snippet views!

I've had a similar problem with a *full* view -- the title that
Google Books gave was incorrect because the scanned item was a volume
with two different books bound together; the snippet came from the second.

Joel

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