Re: [ADS-L] *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not (UNCLASSIFIED)

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Sometimes also GB will have scanned the same book twice in different 
libraries, and one can check one against the otheer.

In a message dated 10/15/09 4:37:33 PM, Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:


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> 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.
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> > 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
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