Logos Books Scanning using traditional flatbed scanner leaves much to be desired at times...
I was looking at the new Logos Books in its beta, and ran across a number of nearly worthless scans in an old Encyclopedia Brittanica:
http://books.logos.com/#q=malherbe/8&content=/books/6514&tab=search
I can understand that care was taken not to break the binding by pressing an antique book hard against the glass, but it causes me to wonder... Logos is so revolutionary in many ways, why don't they team up with some hardware providers and lead the field in a new scanner that is not flat, one shaped like a rooftop [ ^ ] so a book could be draped over it as the scanning optics encased underneath the glass (in the same [ ^ ] configuration) scans top to bottom. It seems I've seen a photocopier that allowed one side of the book to hang neatly over an angled-off edge while it copied the side which was face down on the glass, but I'm predicting there would be a high-end market for such a copier/scanner/document center.
Just my late-night musings...
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Wow, that's REALLY amazing!
Thanks for the link!
Also, in the last few minutes, I found I could view the pages better in color. Maybe the bugs can be worked out as the BW image unnecessarily TOTALLY blacks out areas with only the slightest shade variation.... Still in its BETA, hopefully this will be fixed.0 -
I'm gonna have to go to bed, but this was also very interesting...
The Catholic Encyclopedia (http://books.logos.com/books/5737#content=/books/5737) was published in 1907 [p. 6],
5 years before Francis Schaeffer was born (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer), and yet it lists him as a contributor to the second volume [p. 11]...
(cue "Twilight Zone" music).LATER ADDITION:
Be nice to just edit this off the page (i.e. delete it) but here is the answer... Fr. Francis J. Schaefer, D.D., J.U.D., a Roman Catholic was later named the Rector of the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St.Paul, MN from 1910-1921 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Paul_Seminary_School_of_Divinity), not to be confused with Francis August Schaeffer, a Presbyterian, who incidently died in Rochester, MN in 1984.0 -
Anthony Grubb said:
Be nice to just edit this off the page (i.e. delete it) but here is the answer..
If you click "MORE" button there is a "EDIT" button that will allow that--but do it soon as there is a limited number of hours before it is "locked" forever. [Only a Logos staffer can remove something after that happens].
Regards, SteveF
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Thanks, Steve, but they seem to want notes explaining the reason for each edit, and I didn't think (in my tired state) that I could just wipe it out, that they would accuse me of overly editing (or altering) my posts. I guess what you're saying is that it is permissible to wipe it clean--assumedly if no one else has responded...and I can write "delete post" as my note, if I prefer.
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You can just put "oops" in the comments. They bought a canned forum software package from somewhere else and have tweaked it for their own purposes, but who knows -- that bit might just be what they inherited and very likely they don't care at all about your answers in the edit comments field. Wikipedia requests notes too, when you make edits. It's just a way to make you stop and think to be sure you really want to make the change. It can't be blank, but it could be "blah blah blah" if you want.
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Rosie,
Blah, Blah, Blah, Thanks! (oops) lol
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