Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line

2013-05-25 Thread Loran Hughes
Nice find! I've also been disappointed in their PDF's. Here's a neat video about the Internet Archive that shows them scanning books (among other stuff): http://www.deepspeedmedia.com/internet-archive/ Regards, Loran On May 24, 2013, at 6:10 PM, "DanKj" wrote: > I just found that if you click

Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line

2013-05-25 Thread DanKj
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 mad

Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line

2013-05-25 Thread Rich
You are looking at a Flash representation of the pdf image. On 05/24/2013 06:48 PM, DanKj wrote: 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 unreadab

Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line

2013-05-25 Thread Bill Burns
On 5/24/2013 7:48 PM, DanKj wrote: 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 Phon

Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line

2013-05-25 Thread DanKj
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. He