I just found that if you click either the "HTTPS" or the "Torrent" links on
the pages for these files, you can download really LARGE folders of much
better jp2 images. The original "scans" appear to be snaps taken with a
digital camera while the bound volumes lay on a table, with no effort made
to hold the pages flat. The compression process from jpeg to PDF is not kind
to poor focus!
----- Original Message -----
From: "DanKj" <[email protected]>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line
I just wish these weren't via the Internet Archive, as they usually have
the worst quality PDF files anywhere. I don't know what they do to them,
but despite being huge files, they're often unreadable. Lots of the text
& most of the illustrations in their Phonoscope file are blobs of mush.
Here's a screen-shot to show what I mean:
https://www.box.com/s/27eaim7yyinhihpsnku2
_The Phonoscope : Hunting, Russell, [from old catalog] ed : Free Download
& Streaming : Internet Archive_
(http://archive.org/details/phonoscope13hunt)
_Talking Machine World : Bill, Edward Lyman, 1862-1916 : Free Download &
Streaming : Internet Archive_
(http://archive.org/details/talkingmachinewo24bill)
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