Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
I have added an experimental mobile search function for PublicDomainReprints.org. It is available here:
http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/m
You can search, read and request reprints from your mobile phone. Unlike Google Book search mobile, this supports any mobile phone AND does Internet archive books as well - it includes an experimental mobile reader for Internet ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
From the announcement on the Open Library homepage:
Introducing Scan-On-Demand!
In partnership with the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.org, the Boston Public Library is excited to announce a new program to allow users and patrons to "Scan-on-Demand". It's easy and free! Books are delivered to you, electronically, in 5-7 days
Quick inspection of this ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I am happy to announce that the infamous illustration problem in PublicDomainReprints.org has been fixed. Since the inception, our file conversion had issued with certain Internet Archive titles that had illustrations. That has been fixed as follows:
1. If a book has less than 6 illustrations, it will process in pure ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works:
1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive.
2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company.
3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee
is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2).
The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...
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