*correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/15/2009 04:35 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>I recently found a book that had what appeared to be 200 pages of
>another book stuck in the middle of it, and the pagination for them was
>different if you downloaded the full PDF file (this was a 1907 book),
>than if you looked at it online within Google Books.

Google Books pagination will be different from the PDF because Google
takes the page number from the page image, while Adobe counts pages.  So:

(1)  For the second book in a conflated Google scanning, the Google
page number will be (may be?!) correct once you find the page, but
giving the Google page number to Adobe will only get you into the
first book in the PDF.

(2)  Even for a single book properly scanned, Adobe counts the front
matter with the text and Google counts it separately.

Joel


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Joel S. Berson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:27 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
> >
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>---------------
> > --------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
> >
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------
> >
> > At 10/15/2009 09:37 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> > >But the books that have pdf access also invariably have title pages
> > >with publication dates.
> >
> > There are rare cases where more than one book has been scanned into
> > one file.  (I encountered one such case myself, but unfortunately did
> > not keep track of it.)  This can probably -- perhaps always? -- be
> > uncovered by checking the page and the pagination.  In my case, the
> > page number that Google gave me did not contain the text it
> > promised.  The running header suggested some other book entirely, and
> > I found what I wanted as the second book in the file, with its own
> > title page.  Selecting pages judiciously (such as via a binary
> > search) revealed the two paginations, and led me (eventually) to the
> > proper title page and desired text page.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org