Bowerbird ... feel free to flood us with interesting notices like this ;-)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bowerbird@aol.com Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned? To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird@aol.com
this has been available for a few months now, but hasn't gotten the attention that it deserves...
in conjunction with the boston public library, the open library -- or is it the internet archive?, or is it the open content alliance?, i can never tell -- is now offering a "scan on demand" service...
if a public-domain book in the boston pubic library hasn't yet been scanned, you can bump its priority up to the top of the list by requesting it be scanned.
within "3-5 days", it'll be scanned and placed online, with all the various formats, which includes the o.c.r.
what a wonderful present, eh?
"check it out" (so to speak):
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We (2 people from De Wikisource) have experience with that service. It takes more time than announced but there 20+ books scanned for us successfully. Unfortunately there is a very few selection of German books wich are in the Open Library - BPL has a lot of German books but it is sad that only a few are available for this great service. For English books the situation is much more better.
When searching in the Open Library please note that all numbers given on the right side for "scannable" are wrong. You have to find catalog entries with at least "scannable (1)". Try e.g. search string German: scannable (1), but 183 books are scannable.
Try it out!
Klaus Graf http://archiv.twoday.net Cologne Archives Collapse News
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
We (2 people from De Wikisource) have experience with that service. It takes more time than announced but there 20+ books scanned for us successfully. Unfortunately there is a very few selection of German books wich are in the Open Library - BPL has a lot of German books but it is sad that only a few are available for this great service. For English books the situation is much more better.
When searching in the Open Library please note that all numbers given on the right side for "scannable" are wrong. You have to find catalog entries with at least "scannable (1)". Try e.g. search string German: scannable (1), but 183 books are scannable.
It took me a while to understand what you meant. In case anyone else is having problems, search for "German", and then click on "scannable (1)" on the right hand side, which then displays the 183 books, mostly in German language, which can be scanned.
(I was trying to search on "German: scannable (1)", ... http://openlibrary.org/search?q=German%3A+scannable(1) ...and that wasnt working for me.)
Clicking on "Full text: available" shows 6403 books that have already been scanned, however those results appear to be the same as available on archive.org.
-- John Vandenberg
2009/3/6 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
Clicking on "Full text: available" shows 6403 books that have already been scanned, however those results appear to be the same as available on archive.org.
Of course they are the same because the BPL/Open Library Program is part of the OCA = Internet Archive.
Klaus Graf
this has been available for a few months now, but hasn't gotten the attention that it deserves...
in conjunction with the boston public library, the open library -- or is it the internet archive?, or is it the open content alliance?, i can never tell -- is now offering a "scan on demand" service...
if a public-domain book in the boston pubic library hasn't yet been scanned, you can bump its priority up to the top of the list by requesting it be scanned.
within "3-5 days", it'll be scanned and placed online, with all the various formats, which includes the o.c.r.
This is a nice feature, but 3-5 is a bit optimistic. I order a few books and the delay is more in the order of 2 weeks.
what a wonderful present, eh?
"check it out" (so to speak):
-bowerbird
Regards,
Yann
To John,
really nice:-)
Juan de V.
2009/3/6 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
Bowerbird ... feel free to flood us with interesting notices like this ;-)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bowerbird@aol.com Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned? To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird@aol.com
this has been available for a few months now, but hasn't gotten the attention that it deserves...
in conjunction with the boston public library, the open library -- or is it the internet archive?, or is it the open content alliance?, i can never tell -- is now offering a "scan on demand" service...
if a public-domain book in the boston pubic library hasn't yet been scanned, you can bump its priority up to the top of the list by requesting it be scanned.
within "3-5 days", it'll be scanned and placed online, with all the various formats, which includes the o.c.r.
what a wonderful present, eh?
"check it out" (so to speak):
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