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Nice, but when I 'Proceed(ed) to login' I got 'Service Unavailable' in big unfriendly letters. I'll check back, though. In the meantime, as a cookie so people have something to look at, I like this similar site.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:25 PM on February 21, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:25 PM on February 21, 2007
Hmm. Now I see a login page, but hitting enter doesn't do anything. Anyone else having any luck?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:33 PM on February 21, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:33 PM on February 21, 2007
It's working fine for me. And ooooh, what a thrill -- I have been collecting random extext sites I find for ages, this totally blows my puny little list of bookmarks out of the water. This is the most exciting thing I've seen since that gorgeous shirtless dude leading the All-Blacks haka. Books and beefcake, it's like a dream come true...damnit, why didn't I cough up the MeFi registration fee years ago?
Mind you, they don't seem to have links to a couple of my favorite international e-library sites...but that's probably because the sites in question seem to take a rather, ah, flexible approach to copyright issues.
posted by Smilla's Sense of Snark at 11:41 PM on February 21, 2007
Mind you, they don't seem to have links to a couple of my favorite international e-library sites...but that's probably because the sites in question seem to take a rather, ah, flexible approach to copyright issues.
posted by Smilla's Sense of Snark at 11:41 PM on February 21, 2007
I'm in on one of the mirrors. Good stuff.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:48 PM on February 21, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:48 PM on February 21, 2007
Stav, I've been happily using this site for more than 18 months. It does have a slightly wonky entrance (for which I've never actually registered - just keep clicking through) but I've had the server problem maybe 2 or 3 times out of the countless times I've gone delving in there.
They do say: "A message "Service Unavailable" indicates that the
server may be overloaded with service requests (from site visitors or robots)
and is resetting itself. This will usually correct itself in about 30 seconds."
They also have mirror sites at WWW.DIGITALBOOKINDEX.ORG and WWW.DIGITALBOOKINDEX.COM
I'm not sure if it's a cookie thing (if you have to go through the login) ...so perhaps you can go straight to the subject browse page.
posted by peacay at 11:50 PM on February 21, 2007
They do say: "A message "Service Unavailable" indicates that the
server may be overloaded with service requests (from site visitors or robots)
and is resetting itself. This will usually correct itself in about 30 seconds."
They also have mirror sites at WWW.DIGITALBOOKINDEX.ORG and WWW.DIGITALBOOKINDEX.COM
I'm not sure if it's a cookie thing (if you have to go through the login) ...so perhaps you can go straight to the subject browse page.
posted by peacay at 11:50 PM on February 21, 2007
Well I wrecked the 2nd one nicely which should be: this.
But I forget that you are a wonderchicken.
posted by peacay at 11:53 PM on February 21, 2007
But I forget that you are a wonderchicken.
posted by peacay at 11:53 PM on February 21, 2007
Because I'm sorry for shitting up this thread, here are my two current favorite readers on the PC for e-books. The idiotically named µbook (which is thus invisible on Google, basically) which has an absolutely hideous website, does everything except .pdf and .lit beautifully, once you get your head around the quirkiness of the options interface. I use it mainly for txt, rtf, and html ebooks. The beta Adobe Labs Digital Editions reader is miles better for .pdf ebooks than Acrobat.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:56 PM on February 21, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:56 PM on February 21, 2007
Thank you for visiting Digital Book Index.
Our site is currently out of service
while we back-up our data files
or update our databases.
posted by Cranberry at 12:11 AM on February 22, 2007
Our site is currently out of service
while we back-up our data files
or update our databases.
posted by Cranberry at 12:11 AM on February 22, 2007
(The first mirror is still working over here...)
posted by Smilla's Sense of Snark at 12:44 AM on February 22, 2007
slopes into the room,
posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel at 2:41 AM on February 22, 2007
posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel at 2:41 AM on February 22, 2007
Thank you, Serazin and Peacay!
Just clicking through works for me. I only get back to the states once a year and there are no English books available in this town. I troll for e-texts fairly regularly but haven't come across this site yet.
posted by Adam White at 5:30 AM on February 22, 2007
Just clicking through works for me. I only get back to the states once a year and there are no English books available in this town. I troll for e-texts fairly regularly but haven't come across this site yet.
posted by Adam White at 5:30 AM on February 22, 2007
I think i need to be compounding my paper library now.
posted by mr_book at 5:30 AM on February 22, 2007
posted by mr_book at 5:30 AM on February 22, 2007
I think i need to be compounding my paper library now.
I do not understand the use of "compound" here, and my hat is all askew. Please elaborate?
posted by languagehat at 5:57 AM on February 22, 2007
I do not understand the use of "compound" here, and my hat is all askew. Please elaborate?
posted by languagehat at 5:57 AM on February 22, 2007
I think he means composting? The heathen.
I am getting the error message but will check back. This seems really useful.
What the web really needs, at least for ths historian, are some high-level aggregators and filters. For example, I am very interested in sites with large archives of primary sources online--sites llike American Jouneys. But there does not seem to be a comprehensive list of such sites anywhere on the internet. Indexes of history sites give everything--every shiny Flash site about Lewis and Clark, for instance, even if the content is half-an-inch deep.
posted by LarryC at 6:34 AM on February 22, 2007
I am getting the error message but will check back. This seems really useful.
What the web really needs, at least for ths historian, are some high-level aggregators and filters. For example, I am very interested in sites with large archives of primary sources online--sites llike American Jouneys. But there does not seem to be a comprehensive list of such sites anywhere on the internet. Indexes of history sites give everything--every shiny Flash site about Lewis and Clark, for instance, even if the content is half-an-inch deep.
posted by LarryC at 6:34 AM on February 22, 2007
Hmm.. I was excited someone had finally indexed Archive.org, Google Books and MS Books - but not the case. These projects are so massive they overshadow all the books on all other projects combined.
posted by stbalbach at 7:17 AM on February 22, 2007
posted by stbalbach at 7:17 AM on February 22, 2007
LarryC writes "But there does not seem to be a comprehensive list of such sites anywhere on the internet."
[please presume my head is cocked to one side with an eyebrow raised]
Well, it seems to me that a Professor of American history would be compiling sources as they go along and hopefully they publish them on a website altogether somewhere. Perhaps you might consult with one.
But in all seriousness, the internet has arguably more primary source documents on the internet relating to American history than just about any academic subject I can think of. If you stick 'edu' in with your searches the results should be a bit more trustworthy than you're finding with the majority.
posted by peacay at 7:28 AM on February 22, 2007
[please presume my head is cocked to one side with an eyebrow raised]
Well, it seems to me that a Professor of American history would be compiling sources as they go along and hopefully they publish them on a website altogether somewhere. Perhaps you might consult with one.
But in all seriousness, the internet has arguably more primary source documents on the internet relating to American history than just about any academic subject I can think of. If you stick 'edu' in with your searches the results should be a bit more trustworthy than you're finding with the majority.
posted by peacay at 7:28 AM on February 22, 2007
Ooo! That American Journey's site is fresh! Added to my history bookmarks.
posted by serazin at 8:03 AM on February 22, 2007
posted by serazin at 8:03 AM on February 22, 2007
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