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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: Re: Availability of Out of Print Books and Family Histories
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:22:45 +0100
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In article <015001bfe3f5$3a54ec80$>, Delia Robertson
<> writes
>| 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.
>|
>
>I would vote for this option too. Don't know what you use Rod, but Danie
>Viljoen of Genealogical Society of South Africa used Adobe Acrobat to create
>virtual copies of Familia, the Society's quarterly journal. The 4 CD's each
>contain one decades worth of journals which you can read from cover to
>cover, but also do searches, jump to pages, etc. You can print but cannot
>do cut-and-paste --- which contributes to copyright protection.

Hi Delia,
yes... you can do that stuff with my CDs too, and even use bookmarks.
Click on a name in the index.... and jump to that relevant page, use the
contents pages, etc. The reason I don't use Adobe though, is that it
produces extremely large files, and the way that I do it, it is possible
in fact to get much, much more on one CD. The 1,400 page book I just
completed for example, was no problem.

The CDs don't need installing, and there is no program on the CD... they
work from just the CD. Effectively they are just a huge collection of
inter-linked web pages written in html... so they view with whichever
web browser you use on your computer (Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Netscape, AOL... whatever... anything). Simple but very effective
indeed.

Regards
Rod
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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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