Jared McMahon
09-07-2010, 1:29 PM
I've been surfing Google Books (http://www.google.com/books) an awful lot recently, sucking down content and squirreling it away. I've taken the neader-related books from there as well as some from the Even Falls site and tried to consolidate them in one place:
http://www.scribd.com/jedmcmahon
There are lots of great books out there but they're scattered around, they use different editions and/or different copies of varying quality, the scanning can be hit and miss, and the search functionality on Google Books can be infuriating sometimes. I'm trying to take that variety and distill it down to all wheat, no chaff.
So why do I say "kinda" in the title? Because the Scrib interface appears to be much better at handling text pages than the plates, and the plates are often the most important parts (esp. for people like me who can't read 18th century French). But I don't have anywhere else online where I can serve this much content from, so it'll have to do for the moment and I'll let y'all know if I find a better solution. The immediate alternative would be to post a simple list of books and their Google URLs, but then I'd have to pray it stayed up to date.
So, one more time, for what it's worth, there it is.
Jared (Jed) McMahon
http://www.scribd.com/jedmcmahon
There are lots of great books out there but they're scattered around, they use different editions and/or different copies of varying quality, the scanning can be hit and miss, and the search functionality on Google Books can be infuriating sometimes. I'm trying to take that variety and distill it down to all wheat, no chaff.
So why do I say "kinda" in the title? Because the Scrib interface appears to be much better at handling text pages than the plates, and the plates are often the most important parts (esp. for people like me who can't read 18th century French). But I don't have anywhere else online where I can serve this much content from, so it'll have to do for the moment and I'll let y'all know if I find a better solution. The immediate alternative would be to post a simple list of books and their Google URLs, but then I'd have to pray it stayed up to date.
So, one more time, for what it's worth, there it is.
Jared (Jed) McMahon