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.
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
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
to hold the pages flat. The compression process from jpeg to PDF is not kind
to poor focus!
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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
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
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
Thanks Steve..great info.
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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
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.
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