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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: Re: Availability of Out of Print Books and Family Histories
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:04:50 +0100
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In article <>, Colin Garvie
<> writes
>
>> There is a big flaw in this April... to send the scanned files of a book
>> over the net would take *days* to transmit each book.
>
>This is not such an impossible task as the eText Gutenberg Project has
>proved provided one has access to good quality originals, scanners, and
>OCR software. While Project Gutenberg makes their texts available as
>ascii.txt files they are also downloadable in zip format which reduce
>blockbusters to a singe.

Agreed... that can be an effective way of doing it, although OCRing old
books is somewhat ermm... interesting ;-)
(for that read - an absolute pain)

I won't be doing anything like that with the Archives CD Project though.
I'm a great believer in providing researchers with the *primary* data,
i.e. a copy of the actual book, rather than relegating it to being a
secondary source by providing a transcript.

Best regards
Rod
--
Rod Neep
E-Mail:
THE ARCHIVE CD BOOKS PROJECT
Reproductions of old books, etc. on CD
http://www.fweb.org.uk/pub/books/


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