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Re: DIY orbital scanner - Thanks LockerGnome. Have you worked on the IA planetary scanner? ...
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Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bounce the lighting off matte white reflectors. Shape the reflectors to even the lighting. The lights and reflectors need to be out of the view of the cameras reflected off the glass plate. ...
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Re: Greek letters - It appears to be the sort of garbage output from an OCR engine trained only in latin scripts. The same mess happens at the beginning of many books where there is a mixture of fonts, particularly the t ...
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Re: Another removal - Done. ...
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Another removal - The author has asked that this be taken off http://www.archive.org/details/PartnersInHateNoamChomskyAndTheHolocaustDeniers ...
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Commentarii in Vergilii carmina - I am sure I have browsed a latin commentary to Virgil's Bucolics. It must have been from Archive.org. However I cannot find such a text anymore, neither on the site nor on my harddrive. Have I dreamt? ...
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Re: Please remove - Somewhere Crumb is laughing his head off ...
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Please remove - http://www.archive.org/details/WhenTheGoddamnJewsTakeOverAmerica Uh people who are familiar with the things I post know I don't shy away from sensitive issues, and like to post controversial things ...
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building news and engineering journal - My grandfather recently gave me the Building News And Engineering Journal Vol 29 1875. I am trying to find out some more info on this publication. How many were there printed? etc. Would appreciate an ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Librivox can report what the circumstances are at his end of the node, not what is happening at the host server. I'm not meaning to be an appoligist for anyone, simply an observer of realistic expecta ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Believe me, kiteman, I also am grateful to those who operate the site. It has given me access to books which I could never hope to read otherwise. But gratitude is not the issue. The aim of the arch ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Your post states all of the reasons the host simply cannot do as you would ask. When you log on from (whether from Scotland or New York) your local lines, networks and servers have far more impact on ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - This is a good idea (P2P solutions). Duplication is the best form of preservation. The thought has occurred to me of downloading a copy of every book (half-million or so) but then I did the calculat ...
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Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Are they still digitising? I though Microsoft have wound their digitisation initiative down...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Greetings! I'm also concerned with this issue, and in addition for donations which are truly useful for other areas of the IA project as well, I really urge the Archive to make use of ...
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Attention Framen - The guy that likes to review some of the stuff I uploaded and is apparently an Aussie - I thought you might get a kick out of this http://www.archive.org/details/PocketGudieToAustralia Maybe we can ...
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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOnTheUsTrustTerritoryOfThePacificIslands_489 I keep getting a system slowness message, even though I haven't had the promblem with books of comparable size. Could ...
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Re: posting a new zine - =) We feel like we've had a little car accident on the side of a motorway. So many passers by having a look, but no one stops! Have we posted this question in the wrong place? or is it hard to answe ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Thanks for the info, stbalbach. I understand that the site relies largely on voluntary sources and things don't always run smoothly because everything's stretched to the limit, but that's no excuse f ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - One thing we can all do to help is send in yearly donations. In the states we have Public Television (in the UK it is the BBC) - IA needs that kind of broad base user support, in addition to the fundi ...
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Re: Extremely slow download speeds - It seems that things can only get worse. I got a download speed of .9 kbps yesterday - yes, less than one kbps. I happened to visit the Librivox website today, and they have an announcement that arc ...
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posting a new zine - Hello. We had a bit of a look around, but couldn't find anything that obviously answered our question (so, sorry if we did miss something obvious). We are about to start posting content for a new we ...
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Re: Copyright Question - I am just now working on a British author who died in 1934, whose copyright thus expired in 2004. A few of his books have been reissued in modern facsimile, i.e. not re-set by a publisher, so I don't ...
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Extremely slow download speeds - I've been collecting public domain ebooks for two or three years now, but only recently came across this truly fantastic site. I couldn't believe the range and quality of texts available - all for fre ...
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Re: Copyright Question - Correction-- it's late--- instead of Late 19th Century, read after 1911. Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K, but after 1911 many works are, because the authors lived past 1945. Bert ...
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Re: Copyright Question - P.S. to get Google off the hook a little, there is an interesting legal copyright problem concerning British authors who died after about 1945 or so. It also applies to other online American archives . ...
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Re: Copyright Question - Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Few people have noticed this about Google. Unlike the now-gone Microsoft Live Book Search, oftentimes Google will make their clearly pre-1923 works unavail ...
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Re: Copyright Question - What about their pre-1923 scans that are inaccessible apart from snippits? There is a lot from the late nineteenth century. ...
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Re: Copyright Question - Thanks.. that's great news. Now, if only Google will use them to do copyright checks on their post 1923 scans, and then release them if they're PD! (you can never ask for too much ) ...
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Re: Copyright Question - *mouth hangs open* Thanks for the link, very useful! ...
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Re: Copyright Question - Coincidentally, Google just announced yesterday they have created a single database of all the copyright records from 1923-63 available for download. http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyrig ...
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Re: Please remove - Done. ...
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What happened to all of Microsoft Live's journal scans? - Related to the question right below, Microsoft claimed that they scanned a tremendous number of journal articles for their now defunct scholar search. Something like millions. What happened to all o ...
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Re: Copyright Question - If the work was published before 1923, then it's in the public domain in the U.S., so anyone can use it. After 1923, up to 1964, it's in the public domain unless copyright was officially renewed. All ...
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Re: Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Some of the better periodicals are often re-issued in bound volumes and thus get caught up in the scanning efforts so if your lucky they can be found - but I agree 100% periodicals have been a neglect ...
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Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Currently the Archive's concentration in the text sector is for books and e-books - however, there is generally many less ongoing efforts to save actual periodicals (magazines, newletters, newspapers, ...
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Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bump! ...
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Re: Copyright Question - The archive, as part of the scanning process, has tried to give hints to those that want to use the books. But the archive does not know about copyright-- it is insanely complicated. So, you can use ...
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Re: Copyright Question - If it's in the public domain-- which is what 'not in copyright' means-- then you can do anything you want with it. You can even claim you wrote it yourself-- if you can get away with it I believe ...
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Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - It's strange. I use XP with Firefox and Download Accelerator Plus, but the direct link from the Archive web page doesn't work right-- when the server gets queried a file size 'unknown' comes back as w ...
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Why don't more public libraries subscribe to JSTOR? - Glancing at a list of California libraries that are subscribers to the JSTOR database, I was amazed at how few there are-- and only one public library, San Francisco, as well as just a small number of ...
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Request regarding 'Sort by Date' function - Hello, First of all I should say that I really, really, really love this website. Thank you! My problem is that when I search for books and wish to sort them by the order of their published year (ie . ...
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Copyright Question - Hi, I am new to this list. I live in the United States. Do I need written permission to transcribe, edit, and use the text from a book listed as NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT and which was submitted by Miscrosof ...
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Greek letters - I've opened several books including polytonic Greek texts like Polyaenus, P. Oxy vols 1 to 14 and tried to download the text files. While latin characters were OK, the Greek is a mess. It is not unico ...
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Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - The Archive supports http 1.1 for almost all downloads (and all book downloads), so it should work with resume. What platform are you having this issue with? -brewster ...
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Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - The reason for the discrepancy must be that in the EU and so Britain, copyright extends 70 years after the death of the author, so a book published in the US in 1923 (and so out of copyright there now ...
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No support for "resume" downloads? - I have a slow connection, and would often use the "resume" download function of my browser to access Archive texts through Microsoft Live Books. It worked great. But I notice that with dire ...
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Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - By the same token, we can't access any of that great archive of 50's classical music recordings that are available in Europe! BTW, when does the public domain kick-in in the U.K.? Here it's pre-1923 . ...
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PDF's in Windows/IE fixed - A few readers have mentioned they have had a hard time with our PDF's in Windows/IE recently. (please tell us about these issues as they come up!) It seems it has to do with the "linearizati ...
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Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - You think that's bad -- in the UK I can only seem to view and download books that are pre-1880. I wonder why the UK's Google Books are so restricted? Everything after about 1880 is only available in s ...
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