The Google artillery book-butchers

[cannonmn]

Google is busily butchering books as they digitize them, by omitting any folded plates.  The folded plates are an integral oart of the work.  The only reason they are getting away with it so far is that the authors are all dead.

For every book thus butchered by Google, I'm entering a review like this:

"The failure of Google, one of the richest companies in the world, to digitize the plates at the end of this volume is incomprehensible, and has severely diminished the utility of the volumes to both laymen and scholars."

Yes it is nice that they digitize the books, but the authors put the plates in them for a reason.  Especially if you can't read the language the book is written in, at least you can gain something from the plates, unless they are missing or only the outside fold is shown.

[KABAR2]

I have also noted sloppy scanning where pages are half folded or crumpled and in some cases information has been blacked out where only part of the text is shown.
one can waste hours searching titles only to come up with little more than they started with. I am guessing they are doing this to save on band width,
as this is eating up large amounts of space. sometimes finding the title can lead to a search as to who has the original than at least if one has the means they could go and view it in person.
it seems that many of these texts are from university library's.