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Originally Posted by Hellmark
The PDF is also fairly much garbage. One of the things I loved the most about Hartmann was the illustrations by Fred T Jane (founder of Jane's Group, responsible for illustrations and information about military craft, especially naval and air), but they're either missing, or look like crap. They were scanned in as black and white only, with high contrast (to filter out marks in the paper, etc), which is great for text but horrible for anything else.
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Well, then, I take it back. The artwork is just as much a part of the book as the words are, and I do agree that they should be preserved.
I still think scanning a book to make it widely available is a 'win', but it should be done in order to preserve the entire work, not just the words.