Not to complain or to look a gift horse in the mouth, but : Some of the
scans are so poorly done & then highly compressed as to be illegible. Some
of the original scanning was sloppy in the extreme - not square in the
frame, bad focus carried through entire volumes, etc. I've downloaded
either the jp2 versions or the "original" scanned images in some cases, and
those are sometimes easier to see. This is the case with much of the archive
dot org files, not just this batch.
The original, uncropped & unadjusted scans often show just how crude was
their setup - books were laid out on a piece of cardboard with a few frame
marks on it, with apparently no means of holding the pages in bound volumes
down FLAT so the whole page could be in focus. Grease marks and crumbs
showed that the scanning person was eating on the job, and his dirty fingers
and nails appear here and there. Almost looks as if they hired bums off the
street, quite frankly. Too bad they (the Library of Congress, I assume)
aren't using volunteer collectors to do the scanning - at least they'd have
enough interest to try doing a good job.
----- Original Message -----
From: srsel...@aol.com
To: Phono-l@oldcrank.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:01 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources
All I can say is WOW! Not only all the EPMs but look at what else. Below is
a posting from Sam Brylawski from the ARSCList - which I'm sure many of
you PHONO collectors are not on.
Steve Ramm
I don't recall reading an announcement of this here. If I'm mistaken I hope
you'll agree that it's well worth a new mention.
The great Media History Project that scans media serials for the Internet
Archive, and provides a handy front end for them, has added runs of Talking
Machine World; the 1896 Phonoscope; and the Edison Phonograph Monthly to
its already rich holdings.
http://mediahistoryproject.org/broadcasting/
Congrats and thanks to David Pierce (author of the important and
just-published survey of extant silent films) and his team, and the staff
of the LC Recorded Sound Reference Center.
Have fun. My apologies to your families.
Sam Brylawski
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