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November 25, 2008 07:26:17am |
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Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb |
Google knows it has quality control problems and more recently it has improved - but there are still a lot of older poor quality scans floating around. I could see Google releasing those older scans to Internet Archive with the idea that in the future they will be replaced with better quality ones. It might help explain why the Google watermark was removed. But just speculation.
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November 25, 2008 10:46:01pm |
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Sadly, they remain to pollute the IA servers and waste space. Not to mention the pain of having to use the advance seach feature just to avoid having to dig through them.
Yes, the files that Google have made in the last 8 months are much better. Still 50% batter quality is well below the quality expected from IA.
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January 14, 2009 10:20:37am |
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i get so upset with tpb because whomever that is keeps uploading picture books without the pictures. at least they act as an index of sorts to google books because the google ones do have the images included.
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stbalbach |
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January 14, 2009 04:08:07pm |
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Interesting. Can you post a URL for example? I'd like to see it (or not in this case).
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lotusgreen~ |
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January 14, 2009 10:19:19pm |
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well whaddaya know! i forgive tpb everything!
but one question, if i may: is there a way to see the color version here before downloading the pdf?
i followed your instructions, but it downloaded the pdf; is there a way to see it?
and i wonder if there's a way to suggest to somebody that it would be great if these had color flipbooks....
thank you!
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stbalbach |
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January 14, 2009 10:26:31pm |
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The idea of Flip Book is exactly that, so you don't have to download the PDF. So yeah. It looks like a bug or error that should be reported. Good catch.
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January 14, 2009 10:48:08pm |
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thanks! :^)
should i report it? (to whom???) or are you going to? (forgive me but i don't know if you work here or what....)
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lotusgreen~ |
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January 14, 2009 11:01:08pm |
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oh--you know what i just realized?: if you do not click on http but click directly on pdf you're immediately taken to the google page for the book with color examples of any illustrations. you download from there.
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January 15, 2009 06:46:35am |
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Yeah.. but the Flip Book should still be in color. This forum is the place to report. Since this thread is old and down the list I may re-post a summary as a new post.
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January 15, 2009 09:30:18am |
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thanks!
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