Google Books description

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tarot sport
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Google Books description

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I have noticed that through Google Books search sometimes the book description is not retrieved, but it exists by searching manually.
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How come?
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Re: Google Books description

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Bookends doesn't scrape the web page, it uses the Google Books search API. For many books that returns a description, which Bookends captures. For this book it doesn't, regardless of what the web server outputs.

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