If anyone finds something cool, screenshot it and share it (with alt-text describing what it is!)
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If anyone finds something cool, screenshot it and share it (with alt-text describing what it is!)
ack, that's bad
one possibility -- you may yourself have already tried this and ruled it out -- is if you're using a VPN. The Google Books API I'm using for this does not, for some reason, play well with VPNs ... I usually have to turn mine off to use it
Anachronism got me volume 1 of 11 Years in Ceylon. My Mom lived in Sri Lanka for a few years so that's extra fun! 😀
that book looks fun!
Weird — just worked for me!
One possibility: if you’re running a VPN, temporarily turn it off … I think the Google books API that it relies on can sometimes get tripped up by VPNs
So glad you like it!
If anyone finds something cool, screenshot it and share it (with alt-text describing what it is!)
Request: can the buy this book option provide more information in the search or is that provided by the google widget? I tried it for one but the search term was a single word which did not have anything old in the first page of results.
Alas, i can't alter the built-in properties of the google widget ...
... but I have been intending to create my own button that will take users directly to the downloadable PDF of the book hosted by google
I need to get my butt in gear on that!
Hey, thank you sir!!
I searched for "Stegosaurus" and got _Osteology of the Armored Dinosauria_ by Charles Whitney Gilmore , 1914
A link to the internet archive copy, bc reasons:
https://archive.org/details/osteologyofarmor00gilm/page/n6/mode/2up
I think this volume is still referenced by paleontologists working on stegosaurs today; see for example the description of Miragaia
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2674496/pdf/rspb20081909.pdf
and search for Gilmore
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