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Old 07-31-2012, 11:00 AM   #6
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I try to find a good scan in The Internet Archive, download the raw image files, rotate and crop the illustrations, remove the speckles and make sure the background is pure white (for black and white illustrations). Then I resize all illustrations by the same factor.
Yes, "archive.org" is by far the best source for scanned books with images. That's where I get most of mine from, too. Its scans are also, of course, a good source of printed editions to proofread against. I certainly wouldn't trust a PG book without proofing it - especially an older one.
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