01-02-2019, 08:43 AM | #1 |
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Occult books digitized (The Ritman Library)
Among others Dan Brown has sponsored the digitizing of the really, really old books.
https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/...n%22&reverse=0 I wonder how to make them into epubs... (Besides screengrabs into FineReader...) Spoiler:
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01-02-2019, 09:16 AM | #2 |
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I can't make that site work at all. Not a terribly obvious user interface!
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01-02-2019, 09:44 AM | #3 |
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Yeah it's not the most user friendly. Not easy to find something unless you already know a lot to search for.
But... can't you get to a book? Does this link work? https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/...01764%7D%20asc |
01-02-2019, 09:48 AM | #4 |
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Thanks - that worked. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but all I got was a screen filled with boxes saying "Our Core Collection is Being Digitised". I couldn't make any book appear!
This type of scanned book really wouldn't work as an ePub. Far better as a page-scan PDF. |
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I wonder if one could get it added to the list of sites supported by the FanFicFare Calibre plugin; that would make it easier to grab the books and get them into whatever format you want.
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01-17-2019, 11:12 AM | #7 |
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