SHARING YOUR OLD BOOKS

Today I lent Daryl my Copy of The Henry Ford Trade School Book....It has a section on cutting threads.....He is a very honest guy and I told him he can bring with at the party on the 27 TH. Rich

Very Cool we have a new Forum...Thank You Nelson!!
 
I have since my last post volunteered to scan boss mans manuals for him to.pdf there are about forty manuals i will be scanning and i was thinking i would use Google:roflmao: drive to share the files ,you are and anybody else,welcome to come along if you like.
 
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A good format to share books which content is mainly text is the EPUB used for e-books.
The advantage of e-books is you can consult thousands of volumes in your shop without the need of a shelf.
EPUB readers are available for every type of smartphone, and the text flush smoothly in the small screens, oppositely to PDF which, being static like an image, often requires to jump from the start to the end of lines like playing a tennis match.
A good free EPUB generator, available for every operating system, is Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
The drawback is technical literature requires many images and tables, and these will not flush smoothly as text on small screens.
Oh, of course books have to be typed, not just scanned!
Even the most sophisticated OCR software (the one you need to convert the graphical "profile" of letters into text) is not error-free, specially with old books. Often, for example, a lower case CL becomes a D (cl -> d) or vice-versa, and results could be dangerous, in mechanics (a cluster is far different from a duster!).
I noticed the time required for accurately checking a text for errors is not very shorter than that required to retype the same text, at least for fast typers.
 
I understand about how scanning is a pain in the butt and i understand i may get in trouble for doing so,but im scanning manuals and books.where i can get permission i will,but i just feel if someone wants to spend the very Little free time they get in this day and age restoring an old machine,just give them the book,every machine came with one.....anyway i am sharing all my scans on google drive,, if you would like me to include yours also, email it to me. my email address is
ijustamisall@gmail.com if you want access to the google drive to see whats there here is that link....

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9eUXjuJ2BhMLWV4ekl2bkhDUGM&usp=sharing

paste it into your browser. if anybody wants to include their manuals or what ever ,just send it to me in a email.....
there's not very much there now but there will be,my boss man has a lot of books and literature hes given me permission to share it. please do try to not sell this material.....i mean i could a done that....
 
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1839-1843: Manual of the turner.
While browsing some books in the French National Online Library "Gallica" I stumbled upon this one: I'm sure some of you will like it.
The long original title is «Nouveau manuel du tourneur, ou Traité complet et simplifié de cet art : d'après les renseignements fournis par plusieurs tourneurs de la capitale.» ("New manual of the turner, or complete and simplified Treaty of this art: based on the information provided by several turners of the capital.")
It's a 4-volume manual, some hundreds of pages in old technical French. :panic:
There are just a few illustrations at the end of the 3rd volume, and all the images are in the 4th volume.
Links:
- first volume, 315 pages: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58168425
- second volume, 326 pages: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5816764d
- third volume, 326 pages: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5816764d (images from screen 320: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5816764d/f320.image )
- fourth volume, 13 double page fancy images which can be zoomed a lot: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6203107v

This manual could be a good reason to learn/refresh French ;)
 
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