snippet would be more representative if we take a page in the middle

[eroux]

Currently on etext from OCR the first page is usually pretty bad but that's what we show as the "thumbnail" or snippet of the etext. Having a page in the middle will be more representative of the quality of the etext

What do you think @roopeux ?

[roopeux]

Is this the thumbnail in the search results?

[eroux]

it's the snippet on a text page. For instance on https://library-dev.bdrc.io/show/bdr:MW24047

[roopeux]

I understand the idea of showing a random page from the middle but it would also look a bit weird and potentially misleading, because users expect it to show the beginning.

Do we have a reliable way of showing the beginning of the actual content?