On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Carles Paredes Lanau < [email protected]> wrote:
> (...) Digitalitzations come from google books, but they were free access > (it doesn't mean no cost) only with USA IPs. In addition, they were hard to > access because metada was wrong and different books were displayed in a > same file. We didn't find 3 books, but we are seeking them in libraries. > Almost all books are poetry book, but some editions include theatre and > novel. We know that our scope is too ambicious, but we expect that almost > all editings will be in no more than ten books. > Have you tried HathiTrust ? [1] [2] In short, some libraries that have allowed Google to digitize their books realized the big mess that was done on metadata an scan quality and managed to create a kinda of fork with very powerful search capabilities plus a feedback space that you can request to re-digitize some books. They restrict the download in the very same way as Google Book Search does regarding year of publication and USA IP address. But using a third part download manager [3] you can get scans in JPEG/PNG up to "400%" resolution, what makes the OCR quality and DjVu generation very improved. I personally download from them using a Virtual Machine with a Hotspot Shield [4] installation, that provides me a IP from USA. If you or someone else needs, I will be glad to generate/regenerate DjVus for those titles (ATM I've generated few dozens to pt.wikisource, but I'm uploading those very slowly most to personal laziness xD ) [1] - http://www.hathitrust.org/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust [3] - http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Hathi+Download+Helper?content=158702 [4] - http://www.hotspotshield.com/
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