tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post4135309600190417314..comments2024-03-21T14:59:20.729-04:00Comments on NT Blog: The Bizarre Case of Google Books Unavailable Outside the U.S.Mark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-44822434904496177002010-08-20T15:10:03.238-04:002010-08-20T15:10:03.238-04:00I noticed, thanks. Yes, good point.I noticed, thanks. Yes, good point.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-44241354942166362172010-08-20T14:00:22.673-04:002010-08-20T14:00:22.673-04:00Thanks for the helpful remarks, Roger. I suppose ...Thanks for the helpful remarks, Roger. I suppose my own naiveté resulted in part from the fact that I moved to the US just as the Google Books revolution was getting into full swing. And the fact that so much stuff that appeared on Google Books was then turning up on archive.org masked me from seeing what was happening. Cf., for example, my post about the Oxyrhynchus volumes on archive.org. Presumably the Google Books versions of those are blocked outside the US too?Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-12256147725056796002010-08-20T11:20:09.696-04:002010-08-20T11:20:09.696-04:00For books that haven't been uploaded elsewhere...For books that haven't been uploaded elsewhere another easy fix is to use a web proxy. They require no technical knowledge, there are a ton of them around (just google them), and almost all of them are US based. It's the best way to browse Google books too.Rick Sumnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10284073533968750655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-54927130683716225832010-08-20T11:13:58.049-04:002010-08-20T11:13:58.049-04:00I noticed this last year when I was trying to use ...I noticed this last year when I was trying to use some 19th-century translations of Judaica for one of my courses, and again this spring when I was looking for "Bible History" books from the public domain, to adapt to my own nefarious purposes for a Bible intro course. But of course, that merely reinforces (rather than extends) Holger’s point, since he’s UK-based too.AKMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16776029549322473374noreply@blogger.com