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 ## TOS
 
-Google's terms of service forbid using anything but a browser
-to access their sites. This is absurd and ruinous.
+Google's terms of service are ambiguous. On the one hand they
+forbid using anything but a browser to access their sites.
+This is absurd and ruinous. On the other hand, however, they
+state that one should abide by the rules of robots.txt, which
+are only relevant for non-browser access. A reasonable
+interpretation would be that non-browsers are allowed to
+access Google's services as long as they abide by robots.txt
 See section 5.3 of http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS.
 
-Thankfully, however, for Google Books one is only bound to it
-"for digital content you purchase through the Google Books
-service," which does not affect this program.
-See http://www.google.com/googlebooks/tos.html
-
 ## robots.txt
 
-Their robots.txt allows certain book pages, but disallows
+Their robots.txt allows certain book URLs, but disallows
 others.
 
 We use two types of URL:
@@ -25,3 +25,5 @@ Google consider Allow statements to overrule disallow statements
 if they are longer. And they happen to allow /books?*q=subject:*.
 So, we append that to both url types (it has no effect on them),
 and we are obeying robots.txt
+Details on how Google interprets robots.txt are at
+http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/docs/robots_txt.html