Google Books – Preview Not Available

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Edit: problem solved by @Sathya in comments. It suffices to replace all instances of 358 by 97 in the wrong link that was given to me. I am still curious why such a link makes the page available, while it is not (for me) if I simply go to the preview directly, or if I scroll to page 97 after I have followed the wrong 358 link.

Recently, I followed a link to a Google Books preview where the page was not available in my case, while it was for the person who had shared the link.

I was advised to refresh my browser, clear the cookies, try another browser. I did all that and tried with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. No success.

Then I was advised to use stealthy extension, in case it was a location problem, as I am in Canada. It did not work either.

Here is the link I was provided. Note that the page I was supposed to reach was page 97. And not the page 358, which I can see. So I scrolled up to page 97, and it was not visible for me, while the link provider claims page 97 was visible for him.

Could you tell me what the possible reason is?

Best Answer

Looking at the link, http://books.google.rs/books?id=hIEnzrOBbW0C&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358 it's supposed to take you to Page 358. Change it to 97 & it takes you there.

I also tried scrolling from page 358 to 97, that worked for me as well. Google Books Preview doesn't show all the pages, but in this case page 97 was available so scrolling should take you there.