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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# Getgbook + +## TOS + +Google's terms of service forbid using anything but a browser +to access their sites. This is absurd and ruinous. +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 +others. + +We use two types of URL: +http://books.google.com/books?id=<bookid>&pg=<pgcode>&jscmd=click3 +http://books.google.com/books?id=<bookid>&pg=<pgcode>&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&<sig> + +robots.txt disallows /books?*jscmd=* and /books?*pg=*. However, +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 |