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I really wish the scan was better quality. Extremely hard to read.

by sersi 2y ago

grues-dinner 2y ago
Wikisource has a much better scan, via the Library of Congress: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book.djvu https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-.... And a transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book The Internet Archive scan is poor quality because it is from the BiM (Books in Microfilm) collection, which is expansive and a huge cultural value, but also is made up of scans of black and white microfilms which is a rather lossy way to store book scans. But it made a lot of sense before computers! The SiM (Serials in Microfilm) is really a treasure: https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm It was multiple literal truckloads of microfilm canisters, with 500 million pages of material in 27000 canisters: https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG_0586.JPG https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG...
philipkglass 2y ago
This scan is in color and easier to read: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080382503&seq=3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080382503&se...
- grues-dinner 2y ago
  HathiTrust scans are often only available in the US. In this case, because it's apparently a reprint from the 40s, it's presumably been assumed to be still in copyright outside the US. This is probably incorrect: it's highly likely there was no additional copyright generated by the facsimile process.
  - philipkglass 2y ago
    That's disappointing. I didn't know that HathiTrust had geolocation-based visibility controls. The main reason I started using HathiTrust is because it had much better visibility than Google Books, which is terribly restrictive about allowing full book view for more recent out-of-copyright items.

I really wish the scan was better quality. Extremely hard to read.

by sersi 2y ago

I really wish the scan was better quality. Extremely hard to read.

Wikisource has a much better scan, via the Library of Congress: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book.djvu https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-.... And a transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book The Internet Archive scan is poor quality because it is from the BiM (Books in Microfilm) collection, which is expansive and a huge cultural value, but also is made up of scans of black and white microfilms which is a rather lossy way to store book scans. But it made a lot of sense before computers! The SiM (Serials in Microfilm) is really a treasure: https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm It was multiple literal truckloads of microfilm canisters, with 500 million pages of material in 27000 canisters: https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG_0586.JPG https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG...

philipkglass 2y ago

This scan is in color and easier to read: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080382503&seq=3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080382503&se...

grues-dinner 2y ago
HathiTrust scans are often only available in the US. In this case, because it's apparently a reprint from the 40s, it's presumably been assumed to be still in copyright outside the US. This is probably incorrect: it's highly likely there was no additional copyright generated by the facsimile process.
- philipkglass 2y ago
  That's disappointing. I didn't know that HathiTrust had geolocation-based visibility controls. The main reason I started using HathiTrust is because it had much better visibility than Google Books, which is terribly restrictive about allowing full book view for more recent out-of-copyright items.