I have been told that when opening Google Books from different locations (countries) and using different browsers, it displays different pages from the same book. Can anybody explain me why is this?
Why Google Books show different pages from different locations
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Here is the link to the API: https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using#WorkingBookshelves
The URL that you need is:
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/user/{userId}/bookshelves/{shelf}/volumes
That will work as long as the shelf is public, otherwise you have to have an API key by putting this GET variable on the end:
?key={yourAPIKey}
You cannot. It is a limited preview, the author has not given Google Books the rights to print or save.
If it were a Full Preview you would see something similar to the following in the case of Pride and Prejudice on the page
And then on the output page near the bottom,
Please see Google Books Usage page for more information.
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Best Answer
For some books, Google doens't have the copyright's holders permission to show the whole content of the book, so they just show a random subset of pages. Maybe, those permissions are also country-dependant, so they are allowed to show a different amount of pages depending on the country.
That's why, in some cases, you can see a "different" subset of the book, as they haven't identified you as the same user that already saw the book (you're using different browsers and or from different countries)