Further Nightmares in Google Books

While searching back issues of a magazine, I realized that when you get a match on "X pages matching Y in this book," "this book" frequently means not this issue but this title.  Which means that there is simply no way to identify where in the run any given snippet actually appears.  It's not clear if the problem lies with the library doing the scanning (i.e., the library somehow dumps all of the pages under the title Journal of Thoroughly Exasperated Victorianists) or with Google Books' search function.  In theory, the excuse for snippet view is that users will cheerfully traipse over to the library, reference in hand, and look up the article themselves.  In practice, we cannot do that, because we cannot find out where the article actually is! (If so desired, add two or three exclamation points to that last sentence.)