From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@gnu-designs.com>
Let me know what you're missing, and I'll try to see if anything I have might be able to fill in the gaps.
Hello. I found the shop again. Perhaps it was a temporary network error when I tried it a year ago. :-( The url is "http://www.lybrary.com/". I have purchased the following set of books (collector's editions): The Art of Modern Conjuring anonymous (?) Later Magic Prof. Hoffmann (1911) Magic Ellis Stanyon (1901) Magicians Tricks Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate (1917) Modern Magic Prof. Hoffmann (1876) More Magic Prof. Hoffmann (1890) Our Magic Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant (1911) Sleight of Hand Edwin Sachs (1885) The Art of Magic T. Nelson Downs (1921) The Magicians Handbook P. T. Selbit (1901) The Modern Conjurer C. Lang Neil (1902) But now the most important: how we could get magic books to the PG collection? Lybrary is doing good in making these books available for a relatively cheap price, and convenietly in electronic format. But "competition" never makes harm. Could volunteers here check if the above books are available? The books I have are in one-image-per-page format but I would like to have better quality images (for readability). The text versions could be produced later if people want them; I prefer the original look available in the image versions. Image versions saves much time too. For example, check "http://theses.mit.edu" for good quality image versions of theses. They would have never made them if they would have choosen the same text approach as PG. We too should prefer image version as a first version -- as a fastest version to produce. A digital camera would be fastest way to digitize the books, I'm sure. But how to match the people who have access to these books, the people who have digital camera (or scanner), and the people (like me) who have time and interest to digitize? I have a scanner if somebody would be nice enough to send me books for the digitization. But for the scanner, I would have to lift up, turn, and slightly press flat the books at every page. The 1890 math books I scanned were not harmed in the process, but the scanner is not best apparatus for digitization in this context. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software