OT: Communicating with Google about errors in the Google Books archive

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, Garson -- I might try this sometime.  Apparently not all
feedback with corrections ends up in that big waste bin in the
ether.  Or was the comment you received "a greatly appreciated
constructive and personal response" for, complimentary??

Joel

At 3/14/2010 08:07 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>Joel S. Berson wrote
> > That's hard for me to do when there is no way (that I have yet
> > discovered) to give Google Books feedback on its errors.
>
>Have you ever received feedback when submitting error information
>through the blog interface at Inside Google Books? There is a "contact
>us" link in the right column that leads to a form for feedback and
>suggestions. The feedback webpage includes the following sentence "If
>you are reporting issues with specific content, please use this form
>instead." If you click "this form" then you are redirected to another
>form. There is a drop-down menu  with several choices, e.g., "Error
>with bibliographic information", "Misnumbered page", "Missing page",
>"Books merged together" and "Bad image scan".
>
>http://booksearch.blogspot.com/
>
>So far I have received primarily automated responses. Once I was sent
>a greatly appreciated constructive and personal response.
>
>Garson
>
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