"Isn't it a dit depressing when..." Topic

I'm genuinely really grateful to the heores and heroines who scan in old books to download digitally on the web but it is just a bit depressing when the maps and plates aren't done. Is there a technical reason for this?

check out this for an example of what I mean:

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There is a partial map copied near the end of your example.

Most likely the maps are folded and all you see is the back side of the map with the library stamp on each page. As the maps fold out, this would would still register as a page with an image and the computer would move on to next.

Human error?
Cheers,

More likely they don't want to spend the time opening and scanning the multi-page size maps. If they are a single page it gets scanned, if larger then not.
The only I've seen that scans the larger maps is Gallica
gallica.bnf.fr

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Words fail me.

It is a consistent practice of Google and some others. Plates, pictures and maps are not copied--or done badly, like your Foy example. Why? I can only guess, but I agree. It is damn frustrating and rather stupid.

Bill

The failure to copy any fold-out pages including maps shows how the folks behind this did not think much beyond novels and simple works. Perhaps Google will change.

There are some other sites and libraries, in addition to Gallica in France, that copy the fold-out material:

- Archive.org (unless the work is linked in from Google)

archive.org/details/texts

- Russian State Library (admittedly fewer works outside of those in Russian, yet one can use non-cryllic to search in the key word area – though one must click about a bit to see the result of the search unless one knows Russian or Google provides a quick translation)

elibrary.rsl.ru/?lang=en

The Russians take high-quality copies and the maps are often very well done indeed. The "cost" is larger files. – R