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.

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

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

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

2013-05-25 Thread DanKj
to hold the pages flat. The compression process from jpeg to PDF is not kind to poor focus! - Original Message - From: DanKj ediso...@verizon.net To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine

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 ediso...@verizon.net wrote: I just found

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

2013-05-20 Thread Srsells1
Two more publications on line! _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

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

2013-05-20 Thread George Glastris
Thanks Steve..great info. -Original Message- From: srsel...@aol.com Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:43 AM To: Phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line Two more publications on line! _The Phonoscope : Hunting, Russell, [from old

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

2013-05-20 Thread Vinyl Visions
Thanks... From: glast...@comcast.net To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 09:43:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phonoscope and Talking Machine World on line Thanks Steve..great info. -Original Message- From: srsel...@aol.com Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:43 AM