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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
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