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From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Apr 1, 13:23 -0600
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Apr 1, 13:23 -0600
On 1 Apr 2007, at 3:07 AM, Frank Reed wrote: > Remember when finding old books was an adventure in dusty old > bookstores? And then three years ago, it was an adventure in watching > online auction sites? Well, the adventure is over. :-) I want to agree with Frank: Google Books has an amazing selection of downloadable PDFs of old books. I grabbed 49 books two nights ago (968 MB worth!) with some on navigation, some math, some astronomy, some the history of New York City, California, Germany, as well as a biography of John Davis the Navigator. If you do not have a fast net connection it will be frustrating, but there is one advantage to reading them online instead of downloading the PDFs: they can be searched online but the large PDFs only have the bitmaps of the pages and cannot be searched. http://books.google.com will get you started. Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---