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How a book was made?

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:12:49 +0000

Remember! This was long before the text reading on the screen of your mobile phone. We were using books made out of… paper. I kid you not!

Here is how they made books in this long-gone era:

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The woodpecker book

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:06 +0000

Woodpeckers are birds which are often superb and specially pleasant to watch and photograph. But picidae (the family of most birds we group under the generic name of woodpeckers) also have their illustrated monograph.

‘Monographie des Picidées’ @ Harvard University Library {volumes II + III}.

This is the result of digitization of a reference book from Alfred Malherbe (1804-1866), whose name has even been given to a bird (see one of my photos here). You will find marvelously beautiful engravings presented on Bibliodyssey.

100 public libraries on Internet

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:24:07 +0000

CollegeDegree.com lists 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access.

Knowledge is always free.

A computer voice for your texts

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:09:36 +0000

With VozMe, it’s easy to have your computer read a text. In English (but also in Spanish and in Italian), you will get an MP3 file with your text read by the slightly-metallic voice of your computer.