At the time I sent an email to the Google Book Search team requesting the ability to report missing pages. They were agreeable and responsive, and now it is possible to report missing pages too.

There is a “Feedback” link for each page that is located near the upper right. If you click on it then you have two options for reporting: “Part of the page is unreadable” or “Missing page”. (The Feedback button location might vary based on browser/op-system. I am unsure. But the button should be visible somewhere.)

Google is building a remarkably powerful system, but the forces arrayed against it appear dominant. Use the system before it is shut down, and legislators extend copyright term to 1,000 years retroactively.

At a guess, these ‘glitches’ happen more often in books that were scanned early in the program or by a new hire, but I do wish there was some plan to go back and fix them. This is particularly necessary with rare books where the Google Books copy is the only copy for most of us.

I should note, though, that I’ve downloaded a LOT of Google Books and given the millions of pages scanned, I don’t find it all that onerous to occasionally run across a gloved hand.